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For Further InformationESA and NASA's Solar Orbiter took the first close-up images of the Sun's poles, coming within 42 million km of the Sun.
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To understand how the Sun creates and controls the solar wind and how that affects our planet.
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Solar Orbiter, an international mission between ESA and NASA, launched in February 2020. It has taken the closest-ever images of the Sun and the first close-up images of the Sun's polar regions, coming within 42 million km of the Sun, and links the solar wind to where it comes from on the Sun's surface.
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Tracing solar wind to its source helps forecast the space weather that reaches Earth.
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