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In untold ways, humanity is as clueless about our own star (the sun) as it was a generation ago. But that should change soon after
the projected July 2018 launch of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) ’s Solar Probe Plus (SPP) — a $1.5 billion spacecraft that will travel closer to its surface than any previous man-made object.
Nearly 60 years after NASA first discussed sending a suicide probe into the Sun itself, the space agency is making good on a probe that will travel nearly ten times closer to our star than the planet Mercury. The hope is that, in the process, Solar Probe Plus will provide new data about the Sun’s effects on everything from space weather to short term climate change.
the projected July 2018 launch of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) ’s Solar Probe Plus (SPP) — a $1.5 billion spacecraft that will travel closer to its surface than any previous man-made object.
Nearly 60 years after NASA first discussed sending a suicide probe into the Sun itself, the space agency is making good on a probe that will travel nearly ten times closer to our star than the planet Mercury. The hope is that, in the process, Solar Probe Plus will provide new data about the Sun’s effects on everything from space weather to short term climate change.
