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NASA wishes to visit the Sun in 2015!
Aug 9 2008, Sameer Kumar

We have created amazing fuss and plenty of intrigue about Mars and even as the Red Planet is still being explored, NASA has decided that it will try and get close to the sun and do that in seething hot conditions which would surely put to test anything.

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