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New Frontiers has played a crucial role in U.S. efforts to explore the solar system and return valuable scientific information. A new report recommends potential themes for the fifth mission that will ...

A new mission designed to better understand the heliosphere will be the first to map in three dimensions how the solar corona becomes the solar wind.