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		</div><p>Nasa is set to announce a new mission to fly directly into the Sun’s atmosphere.</p>
<p>The US space agency said the Solar Probe Plus, which will help “revolutionise our understanding of the Sun”, is expected to launch in the summer of next year.</p>
<p>The probe will orbit within 3.9 million miles (6.2 million kilometres) of the Sun’s surface and withstand temperatures of nearly 1,377 degrees Celsius (2,500 degrees Fahrenheit).</p>
<p>According to Nasa, the spacecraft will come “well within the orbit of Mercury” and will be “more than seven times closer than any spacecraft has come before”.</p>
<p>The last time a spacecraft came close to the star’s surface was in 1976, when Helios 2 achieved perihelion – point of the orbit at which it was closest to the Sun – at 27 million miles (43 million kilometers).</p>
<p>Nasa said in a statement: <i>“The spacecraft will explore the Sun’s outer atmosphere and make critical observations that will answer decades-old questions about the physics of how stars work.</p>
<p>“The resulting data will improve forecasts of major space weather events that impact life on Earth, as well as satellites and astronauts in space.”</i></p>
<p>The Solar Probe Plus will be protected from the Sun’s brutal heat and radiation by a special carbon-composite heat shield that is 11.43cm (4.5in) thick.</p>
<p>The announcement will be made on a live webcast on Nasa TV later on Wednesday.</p>
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