Materials -- Taking the Heat (IMAGE)

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Materials -- Taking the Heat

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NASA's Parker Solar Probe, shown in this artist's concept, is scheduled to launch on July 31 to contribute data that may improve the agency's ability to forecast space weather, which can disrupt communications satellites and power grids, and may demystify why the sun's corona is hotter than its surface.

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Steve Gribben/NASA, Johns Hopkins APL

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