https://medium.com/the-space-perspective/a-mission-to-touch-the-sun-with-the-fastest-spacecraft-in-history-4a086cea1d13

Designed to study the solar atmosphere, the Parker Solar Probe will go closer to the Sun’s surface than any other spacecraft before it. Things are going to heat up real quick.

To understand why the Parker Solar Probe is being sent to the solar atmosphere, we first take a look at why its important to study the Sun and how it affects us.