Launch could happen as early as 2015
As stated in the article, (italics and emphasis added by moi)
"The two mysteries prompting this mission are the high temperature of the sun's corona and the puzzling acceleration of the solar wind:
Mystery #1—the corona: If you stuck a thermometer in the surface of the sun, it would read about 6000o C. Intuition says the temperature should drop as you back away; instead, it rises . The sun's outer atmosphere, the corona, registers more than a million degrees Celsius, hundreds of times hotter than the star below. This high temperature remains a mystery more than 60 years after it was first measured"
Mystery #2—the solar wind: The sun spews a hot, million mph wind of charged particles (cough cough) throughout the solar system. Planets, comets, asteroids—they all feel it. Curiously, there is no organized wind close to the sun's surface, yet out among the planets there blows a veritable gale. Somewhere in between, some unknown agent gives the solar wind its great velocity. The question is, what? "
With electrical terminology regularly being added throughout the last few years to mainstream jargon, is it possible that they are about to make an Amazing Discovery?
We can only Hope that History will give credit to those that figured this out Long before NASA parked the short bus on the right track.
Kwiki the koala says
Nothing to see here! No Dark matter, No Gravity Waves, No Magnetic Reconnection!
It's Electric!!
