Solar Orbiter to Take Closest-Ever Sun Photo Written 25 March 2022

SPACE reports that Solar Orbiter “has snapped the closest images of the sun ever taken, revealing the finest details of our star’s outer atmosphere, the corona.” The images “were taken on March 7, when Solar Orbiter was exactly halfway between Earth and the sun, at a distance of 46 million miles (75 million kilometers) from both bodies.” On Saturday at 7:50 a.m. EDT, “the spacecraft will zoom past the sun at a distance of only 30 million miles (48.3 million km), about a third of the sun-Earth distance, ESA’s Solar Orbiter deputy project scientist Yannis Zouganelis told Space.com.”
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