NASA Aims To Plunge Car-Sized Probe Into The Sun

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Sep 3, 2010, 4:58:29 PM9/3/10

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NASA Aims To Plunge Car-Sized Probe Into The Sun
NASA is developing an ambitious new mission to plunge a car-sized probe directly into the sun's atmosphere, boldly going where no spacecraft has gone before. The spacecraft, called Solar Probe Plus, is slated to launch no later than 2018, NASA announced Thursday. The space agency has picked the five science experiments to ride aboard the new sun-exploring spacecraft. The instruments include a solar wind particle detector, a 3-D camera, and a device to measure the sun's magnetic field, among other tools.