This niftyness is extremely nifty. By the year 2015, NASA hopes to send a probe to the sun. And yes, it will be heat resistant. Seriously, what's the point of sending a probe only to have it burn up..... although maybe if you packed some sulfur and diamonds in it you could make a Kirk cannon and blast our space alien neighbors, which would probably look really cool from a telescope. Until our space alien neighbors got angry and fired lazers at us. But the real reason for sending a solar probe is to solve two major mysteries: 1) Why is the corona a hundred times hotter than the actual sun? This just defies all common sense, so my mind has been blown. 2) How is the solar wind so gusty? It's not gusty around the sun, so why should it be gusty everywhere else? Once again, the laws of common sense have been torn to shreds.... along with my mind.
"We are going to visit a living, breathing star for the first time," says program scientist Lika Guhathakurta of NASA Headquarters. "This is an unexplored region of the solar system and the possibilities for discovery are off the charts."
I am so excited!! Here's the full article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080611142452.htm
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