ESA's next Sun mission will be shadow-casting pair
Tuesday, February 18, 2020 - 22:00
in Astronomy & Space
After Solar Orbiter, ESA’s next mission observing the Sun will not be one spacecraft but two: the double satellites making up Proba-3 will fly in formation to cast an artificial solar eclipse, opening up the clearest view yet of the Sun’s faint atmosphere – probing the mysteries of its million degree heat and magnetic eruptions.