Spacecraft will watch the Sun from every angle while a NASA probe swoops in for a closer look
by Lisa Grossman
Link: Science News
Parker Solar Probe Will Have Company on Its Next Pass
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Re: Parker Solar Probe Will Have Company on Its Next Pass
Mercury wrote: ↑Fri Jan 15, 2021 8:07 pm
Spacecraft will watch the Sun from every angle while a NASA probe swoops in for a closer look
by Lisa Grossman Link: Science News
Science News wrote:
<<When the Parker Solar Probe makes its next close pass of the sun (shown in the black arc in the center of this diagram), a host of other spacecraft and telescopes on Earth will be watching too. This diagram shows the relative positions during the flyby of the sun, Earth, Parker, Solar Orbiter and two other spacecraft, BepiColombo and STEREO-A.JHU-APL>>
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