NASA and ESA set to send Solar Orbiter probe to map Sun’s poles

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the European Space Agency (ESA) are gearing up to send a new probe toward the Sun to take a unique look at its blazing poles, an unprecedented view expected to help researchers grasp how the star’s vast bubble of energy affects Earth and humans in space.

Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020

Solar Orbiter will link the sun to the heliosphere as never before, helping to establish a cause-and-effect relationship to what happens on the sun and what we observe in the near-Earth environment. In order to crack this solar mystery, a spacecraft needs to orbit at an angle out of plane with the sun’s equator and stare down at the poles.