Solar Orbiter Gets Closest-Ever Look at the Sun
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3 min readJul 17, 2020
by Ryan Whitwam
NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) got together earlier this year to launch the aptly named Solar Orbiter spacecraft. The mission recently took up its position near the sun, and the agencies have released the first wave of images from this enviable vantage point. Naturally, the pictures are stunning and unprecedented, but they also show some scientifically…