New mission to skim the Sun: NASA selects science investigations for Solar Probe Plus

4 September 2010, 6:07 am

NASA has begun development of a mission to visit and study the sun closer than ever before. The unprecedented project, named Solar Probe Plus, is slated to launch no later than 2018. The small car-sized spacecraft will plunge directly into the sun's atmosphere approximately four million miles from our star's surface. It will explore a region no other spacecraft ever has encountered.... Read More »

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