Solar Probe Plus To Plunge Directly Into Sun's Atmosphere

"NASA's daring plan to visit the sun took a giant leap
forward with the selection of five key science
investigations for the Solar Probe+ spacecraft.

Slated to launch no later than 2018, the smart car-
sized spacecraft will plunge directly into the
atmosphere of the sun, aiming to solve some of the
biggest mysteries of solar physics. The
announcement means that researchers can begin
building sensors for unprecedented in situ
measurements of the solar system's innermost
frontier."

See:

http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/So...phere_999.html