Acquisitions and Mission Investigations in support of NASA's Science Mission Directorate's Living With a Star program.
Rendition of the Solar Probe Plus. (Credit NASA).
Solar Probe+ (SP) Mission
"Solar Probe (SP) is humanity’s first visit to our star to explore the complex and time varying interplay of the Sun and Earth which affects human activity.
SP will determine where and what physical processes heat the corona & accelerate the solar wind to its super-sonic velocity. " ( Re:
http://solarprobe.jhuapl.edu)