A High-Resolution Mission to the Sun and Inner Heliosphere
The Solar Orbiter will for the first time
- explore the innermost regions of our solar system,
- study the Sun from close-up (45 solar radii, or 0.21 AU)
- fly by the Sun, tuned to its rotation and examine the solar surface and the space above from a co-rotating vantage point,
- provide images of the Sun's polar regions from heliographic latitudes as high as 38 degrees
SIM 3D is in the planning stage to fly on Solar Orbiter in 2011
>> go to the official website of Solar Orbiter
