https://blogs.nasa.gov/parkersolarprobe/ https://blogs.nasa.gov/parkersolarprobe/ has good information and a graphic illustrating the orbits of the probe. BTW,

https://blogs.nasa.gov/parkersolarprobe/ https://blogs.nasa.gov/parkersolarprobe/ has good information and a graphic illustrating the orbits of the probe. BTW, "touches the sun" means 6.5 million miles away. To try to put that in perspective: "One astronomical unit (AU) represents the mean distance between the Earth and our sun. An AU is approximately 93 million miles (150 million km). It's approximately 8 light-minutes." [0] The probe at its closest orbit will be orbiting at very approximately 1/14 of an AU. And (again very approximately) 34 light-seconds from the Sun. 0 - https://earthsky.org/space/what-is-the-astronomical-unit https://earthsky.org/space/what-is-the-astronomical-unit