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NASA to announce launch of first ever probe to ‘touch the sun’
NASA will tomorrow officially announce its mission to launch a probe that will ‘touch the sun’ for the first time. The £1.2billion Solar Probe Plus expedition will dip inside the sun’s atmosphere and have to survive unimaginable levels of radiation and temperatures of 1,400°C, reports sciencealert.com. Travelling a mind-boggling four million miles, it is set…