Monday, September 6, 2010

Spacecraft to fly into the sun
[ Mon, 6 Sep 2010 11:50:00 GMT ]

One challenge of building Solar Probe Plus, as shown in this rendering, is making sure it won't melt as it flies into the sun's corona.Why the sun's atmosphere is nearly 200 times hotter than its visible surface is a long-standing mystery. A new spacecraft, called Solar Probe Plus, aims to find some answers.


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