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When viewing this frame,

–you might logically assume the thing I want to draw attention to–

–is that beautiful expression.

Well, nope.

What I really find fascinating is that some background artist needing to make up tombstone people…

…and the names they went with were “Hary Brons”…

–and “Elcon Dired.”

Anagrams, or just bored animators? You decide!

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Launching summer 2018, Parker Solar Probe will be our first mission to “touch” a star. The spacecraft - about the size of a small car - will travel right through the Sun’s atmosphere, facing brutal temperatures and radiation as it traces how energy and heat move through the solar corona and explores what accelerates the solar wind and solar energetic particles.

Send your name along for the ride at go.nasa.gov/HotTicket! Submissions will be accepted through April 27, 2018. 

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