BBC Focus Magazine

[Shadowwolf]

NASA Selects Science Investigations for Solar Probe Plus

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.

Solar Probe Plus will plunge directly into the sun’s atmosphere at approximately 4 million miles from the sun’s surface into a region that no other spacecraft has ever encountered. The spacecraft folds its solar panels into the shadows of its protective solar shade, leaving just enough of the specially-angled panels in sunlight to provide power closer to the Sun. Credit: JHU/APL

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/sunearthsystem/main/solarprobeplus.html

[Healerman]

To boldly go

Well done NASA. When we live so close to an unshielded fusion reactor, it could pay big dividends to understand it as much as we can.

Tnanks for that Mr Wolf.