NASAPrepares For Close-In Solar Probe
Credit: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Engineers are beginning work on a hardened spacecraft they hope will be tough enough to fly through the Sun’s million-degree corona repeatedly on a quest for scientific data that could someday save the lives of astronauts on the way to Mars. NASA has selected instruments worth about $180 million for...
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