Europe's Sun mission makes first close pass
Europe's Solar Orbiter (SolO) probe makes its first close pass of the Sun on Monday, tracking by at a distance of just over 77 million km. SolO was launched in February and is on a mission to understand what drives our star's dynamic behaviour. The close pass, known as a perihelion, puts the probe between the orbits of Venus and Mercury.
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