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NASA Scheduled To Launch Solar Missions By 2018

September 6th, 2010 link to (permalink)

No, we don’t mean solar-powered missions, though solar power has been a mainstay of NASA vehicles for ages. We mean missions to the sun. Officially dubbed the Solar Probe Plus, the purpose of the 2018-scheduled odyssey is straightforward enough: studying the sun’s surface.

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