RECENT STUDIES - Solar Orbiter

The Solar Orbiter mission study was conducted from 3 March 2004 through to the Internal Final Presentation on 17 March 2004, at the request of the Science Payloads and Advanced Concepts Office. The purpose of the Solar Orbiter mission is to explore the uncharted innermost regions of our Solar System, to study the Sun from close-up (0.21 AU) and to provide images of the Sun’s polar regions from heliographic latitudes as high as 38°.