NASA Plans Visit to the Sun

The Corona, the outer edge of the sun's atmosphere, is hundreds of times hotter than the sun's surface.

Why?

NASA is determined to find out, with its new Solar Probe +, designed to withstand the intense heat and million mile an hour solar wind ...

What will it find and will it survive?

We'll have to wait until 2021 to find out ... in the mean time, check out the article for more.

Filed under: solar probe +, sun, exploration, and corona