NASA’s probes to the sun’s pole
February 13 , 2020
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- NASA of the United States and the ESA (European Space Agency) sent space probes to the sun to map its poles.
- The solar orbiter was launched on February 9, 2020.
- The probe will use gravitational influence of the Earth and Venus to position itself at 26 million miles from the sun.
- The probe will map the poles for the first time.
- This will help scientists to observe the solar winds.
- The solar winds are released from the upper atmosphere of the sun.
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