New mission to skim the Sun: NASA selects science investigations for Solar Probe Plus
Saturday, September 4, 2010 - 08:14
in Astronomy & Space
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.