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NASA will touch the sun... http://www.space.com/37023-solar-probe-plus-nasa-announcement-webcast.html?utm_source=notificatio
The announcement will be part of a live webcast that will be available to watch on NASA TV, or you can watch the event live on Space,com, courtesy of NASA. Advertisement
The Solar Probe Plus mission is scheduled to launch in the summer of 2018 and will orbit within 4 million miles (6.4 million kilometers) of the sun's "surface," where the probe will "[face]heat and radiation unlike any spacecraft in history," according to a statement from NASA.Mercury, by contrast, orbits the sun at a distance of between 28 and 43 million miles (46 and 70 million km), and the constant stream of radiation and powerful particle storms from the sun have utterly transformed that ...atmosphere.
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Solar Probe Plus, i hereby dub thee "Icarus"
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The same thing crossed my mind also. Yet, I'm strangely excited to see what happens.
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Sun screen will not work. All you others say Hell Yea!!  | |
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I doubt they are expecting the probe to survive, no probe has ever survived Venus, kind of hard to imagine this one is coming home. Duh, I know, none of them do. Well we know it won't pollute anything cause the Sun will most definitely recycle it. But it'll be interesting what they learn still. I think I'm most fascinated by stars.One day we'll get to this: | |
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