Sign up to FREE email alerts from Mirror - daily news Subscribe Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Invalid EmailEurope’s Solar Orbiter spacecraft will make its first close pass of the sun today. The spacecraft will swing past the sun at a distance of just over 47 million miles, during a close pass known as a perihelion. This distance puts solar orbiter between the orbits of Mercury and Venus. The European Space Agency (ESA) explained: “ESA’s Sun-exploring mission Solar Orbiter will take the closest ever images of the surface of our parent star. “By the end of our Solar Orbiter mission, we will know more about the hidden force responsible for the Sun’s changing behaviour and its influence on our home planet than ever before.”If you want to track Solar Orbit’s activity, make sure you check out ESA’s ‘Where is Solar Orbiter’ tool here.

Source: Daily Mirror June 15, 2020 07:04 UTC