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Solar Probe plus a new NASA mission to

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visit and study the Sun closer than ever

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before is officially underway the

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spacecraft will plunge directly into the

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sun's atmosphere at approximately 4

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million miles from the surface into a

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region no other spacecraft has ever

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encountered NASA's daring plan to visit

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our nearest star the Sun took a giant

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leap today we just announced a selection

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investigation these are signs

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instruments for five different kinds of

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investigation for this mission called

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solar probe plus that's going to visit

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the Sun as no other spacecraft has done

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before it's going to go with in 9.5

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solar radii of the Sun that's about 4

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million miles from the surface of the

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Sun very close this spacecraft is

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actually going to go there and sample

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the plasma it's it's light tasting

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touching smelling the environment of the

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Sun the line of sight from the Sun to

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earth is 93 million miles so this lot of

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stuff in there you have to detangle that

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with solar probe we don't have to

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detangle anything because it is going to

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be in that environment and actually

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measured this with its instruments

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answers so there is a deep connection

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between what happens on the Sun on a

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normal quiet day to what happens on the

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Sun on a very active stormy day that is

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directly connected to our lifestyle here

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on this planet so we really want to

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understand what goes on the Sun we

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aren't want to understand the physics

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and with that knowledge we expect that

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we will be able to make better

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prediction so that we can take