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Using NASA data, scientists
recently made a _______________
discovery about the sun's corona: It's
much ____________ than they
originally thought!
While the sun is nearly 900,000
miles _________, the corona
actually extends five million
miles above the sun's surface.
In other words, the sun's
atmosphere is six times wider than
the ________ itself!
The discovery that the corona is so
large is an important one. Before this
discovery, scientists thought they
had a pretty good _______ where the
sun's atmosphere ended and where
the rest of ___________ began. They
couldn't be happier that they were wrong.
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That's because NASA is working on a
new ______________ that will travel to
the sun. It will go closer to the sun than
any previous mission.
When NASA started working on the
spacecraft ____________, they weren't sure
if it would actually travel through the corona
itself. With this new discovery, they now know
for sure that it will!
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