This illustrations depicts the Solar Probe Plus spacecraft
leaving Earth, after separating from its launch vehicle and booster rocket,
bound for the inner solar system and an unprecedented study of the Sun.
Credits: JHU/APL
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NASA will make an announcement about the agency’s first mission to
fly directly into our sun’s atmosphere during an event at 11 a.m. EDT
Wednesday, May 31, from the University of Chicago’s William Eckhardt Research
Center Auditorium. The event will air live on NASA Television and the agency’s website.
The mission, Solar Probe
Plus, is scheduled to launch in the summer of 2018. Placed in orbit within
four million miles of the sun’s surface, and facing heat and radiation unlike
any spacecraft in history, the spacecraft will explore the sun’s outer
atmosphere and make critical observations that will answer decades-old
questions about the physics of how stars work. The resulting data will improve
forecasts of major space weather events that impact life on Earth, as well as
satellites and astronauts in space.
Participants include:
·
Thomas Zurbuchen,
associate administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington
·
Nicola Fox, mission
project scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in
Laurel, Maryland
·
Eugene Parker, S.
Chandrasekhar Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University of
Chicago
·
Eric Isaacs, executive
vice president for research, innovation and national laboratories at the
University of Chicago
·
Rocky Kolb, dean of the
Division of the Physical Sciences at the University of Chicago
For more information on the mission and agency solar-related
activities, visit:
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