NASA PLANNING MISSION TO VISIT SUN
Baku, September 3 (AZERTAC). Sometime before 2018, NASA intends to send a spacecraft into the solar atmosphere. Since NASA has never sent any vehicle close to Earth`s Sun, the craft will have to be outfitted with a special shield designed to withstand radiation and temperatures exceeding 2550 degrees Fahrenheit. A spokesman for NASA said scientists will depend on simulations to guarantee that the probe can cope with that sort of intense heat. Until now, observations of the Sun were recorded from flybys millions of miles away. But the Solar Probe Plus, as it`s called, will get close enough so that scientists hope to learn more about the solar corona and the solar wind. In a recent report on a Sun probe, NASA scientists noted that while they may know more about the corona and solar wind than ever before, “the answers to these questions can be obtained only through in-situ measurements of the solar wind down in the corona.”
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