The solar system is quite a mystery. However, the biggest mystery seems to be that of the brightest star in our solar system, the Sun. In 2018 NASA plans to give the world a better understanding of the Sun. NASA intends to send a spacecraft which will be approximately four million miles from the sun’s surface.

This historic event is aptly being called Solar Probe Plus. This mission is extremely exciting for the mere fact that no other man-made aircraft or space vessel has traveled this close to our sun.

The experiments that have been chosen for Solar Probe Plus are clearly and correctly produced to answer two probing questions. The first question being, why is the sun’s surface or photosphere exceptionally hotter than that of its visible surface. The second question that is being asked is, what drives the solar wind that alters the solar system and our own planet.

The Sun is the only region in solar system that has not yet been explored by any spacecraft. By attempting the planned experiment, Solar Probe Plus will incessantly experience the near-Sun elements. This will play a huge part in answering the questions which have been bugging scientists for years now.

In the past there have been countless experiments and findings that have given way to other scientific findings and gave clarity on coronal heating and solar wind acceleration.

In this day and age, scientists are more knowledgeable than they have ever been about the solar wind and the corona. Nevertheless, the two integral questions that were raised as early as the 1940’s through the uncovering of the corona’s temperature and later on in the 1960’s by the confirmation that the solar wind’s existence still remain unanswered.

There is only one way to answer these probing questions. In-situ measurements of the solar wind down in the corona is needed. This mission was initially first advised in 1958 by the National Academy of Science’s “Simpson Committee”. From that time on NASA has administered a considerable amount of studies regarding this matter.

Hopefully, after this milestone mission on year 2018 the questions that have been haunting scientist’s will finally be answered.

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