Nasa Is Going to The Sun In 2015
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Nasa’s new space mission to the sun will lunch in 2015, at a speed of 25 miles per second and under 2,600 degrees Fahrenheit. The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory is building a craft that will visit the sun’s corona. Of course the craft will be unmanned Nasa said.
For decades scientist were trying to figure out how to send such a probe to the sun, but the technology did’nt exist at that time with feasible cost. The proble will cirlce the sun for about seven years until it reaches its closest point, which is about 4.1 million miles from the sun. It’ll provide data on a variety of phenomena, such as magnetic fields, solar winds, dusty plasma and energetic particles.
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