Coming up in 100 minutes at 21:48CET: the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter mission is making a flyby at Venus, just 379km above the cloud tops.
Although it has made several Venus flybys before, this one's special: it's the first of a sequence designed to lift the spacecraft out of the ecliptic plane.
Why? Because Solar Orbiter is aiming to take the first clear images of the Sun’s north & south poles.
Will there be a polar hexagon like on Saturn? Stay tuned 🌞
https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Operations/Solar_Orbiter_ready_for_close_encounter_with_Venus
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Although it has made several Venus flybys before, this one's special: it's the first of a sequence designed to lift the spacecraft out of the ecliptic plane.
Why? Because Solar Orbiter is aiming to take the first clear images of the Sun’s north & south poles.
Will there be a polar hexagon like on Saturn? Stay tuned 🌞
https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Operations/Solar_Orbiter_ready_for_close_encounter_with_Venus
#SpaceScience
Solar Orbiter ready for close encounter with Venus
The European Space Agency (ESA) is ready to guide the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft through its closest encounter with Venus so far.www.esa.int
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