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Instead of millions of degrees, temperatures at Solar Orbiter will reach several hundred degrees.

The close distance allows the Parker Solar Probe to make direct measurements of those regions, Solar Orbiter will be passing farther from the sun.With more data on the global magnetic field of the star, scientists would be able to forecast space weather events.It will help scientists understand the sun's dynamic behaviour and also, solve mysteries such as the sunspot cycle, why the star spews out high velocity charged particles through the solar system.The Orbiter aims to understand the behavior of the sun and to provide information on how the former would affect technology such as satellites, navigation systems, power grids, and telecommunication services.The Orbiter will take pictures using telescopes through a heat shield that is partly made of baked animal bones, to help it withstand temperatures of up to 600 degree Celsius.With SoLO scientists for the first time get a good view of the top and bottom of the sun. Until now almost all of the solar-watching spacecraft have orbited in the ecliptic, or the same plane that the planets travel around the sun.The mission is expected to complete 22 orbits of the sun in 10 years. Additional Venus flybys will increase the angle to 33 degrees. A flyby of Venus in 2025 will swing Solar Orbiter out of the ecliptic to an angle of 17 degrees, which is enough to get a good glimpse of the polar regions.Additional flybys - one of Earth, two more of Venus - will further adjust the orbit, which will still be in the ecliptic (the plane of the orbits).A flyby of Venus wil let it spiral closer toward the sun. The launch trajectory will take Solar Orbiter away from Earth into an orbit around the sun.The coronagraph includes a disk to block out most of the light to look at what is going on in the sun’s outer atmosphere. Some of the cameras can break the light into separate wavelengths to identify specific molecules. The cameras will look at a range of wavelengths of light, including ultraviolet and X-rays.The new spacecraft will use the gravity of Venus and Earth to swing itself out of the ecliptic plane passing inside the orbit of Mercury and will be able to get a bird’s eye view of the sun’s poles for the first time. Before SolO, all solar imaging instruments have been within the ecliptic plane, in which all planets orbit and which is aligned with the sun’s equator.Solar Orbiter (called SolO) will face the sun at approximately 42 million kilometres from its surface.Six remote-sensing imagers - which see the sun from afar.Four in situ instruments - which measure the space environment immediately around the spacecraft like the sense of touch.The mission plans to take the first pictures of the top and bottom of the sun. The Solar Orbiter Mission is a collaborative mission between European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA.Solar Orbiter Mission which is a collaborative mission between the European Space Agency and NASA to study the Sun was recently launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida.