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Solar Orbiter blasts off to capture first look at sun’s poles
Europe and NASA's Solar Orbiter rocketed into space on Feb. 9 night on an unprecedented mission to capture the first pictures of the sun's elusive poles.
“We’re on the way to the sun. Go Solar Orbiter!” said Cesar Garcia Marirrodriga, project manager for the European Space Agency.
- CAPE CANAVERAL-The Associated Press
- Hurriyet
“It’s a fantastic moment … it’s like, well, we’re unstoppable.”
The $1.5 billion spacecraft will join NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, launched 1 1/2 years ago, in coming perilously close to the sun to unveil its secrets.
While Solar Orbiter won’t venture close enough to…