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NASA/ESA Solar Orbiter to Release Closest Pictures of the Sun to Date - Interesting Engineering

NASA/ESA Solar Orbiter to Release Closest Pictures of the Sun to Date - Interesting Engineering

NASA/ESA Solar Orbiter to Release Closest Pictures of the Sun to Date - Interesting Engineering
Jul 14, 2020 29 secs

Solar Orbiter made its first perihelion, the closest orbit point to the Sun, around the Sun on June 15, the distance of the spacecraft was about 47 million miles (77 million km) or approximately half the distance between the Earth and the Sun.

The week following this perihelion scientists tested all ten instruments on-board the spacecraft, including 6 telescopes that took the closest pictures of the star to date.

Daniel Müller, Solar Orbiter Project Scientist says "We have never taken pictures of the Sun from a closer distance than this, there have been higher resolution close-ups, e.g.

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