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Probe to the Sun? Sunday, May 04, 2008 - Ehud Rattner Home >> Headlines >> Space   
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The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory is sending a spacecraft closer to the sun than any probe has ever gone – and what it finds could revolutionize what we know about our star and the solar wind that influences everything in our solar system. NASA has tapped APL to develop the ambitious Solar Probe mission, which will study the streams of charged particles the sun hurls into space from a vantage point within the sun’s corona. (source: jhuapl.edu)
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