2013•Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIERequires access
The Solar Orbiter mission
D. Müller, O. C. St. Cyr
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Abstract
The ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter mission will address the central question of heliophysics: How does the Sun create and control the heliosphere? The heliosphere represents a uniquely accessible domain of space, where fundamental physical processes common to solar, astrophysical and laboratory plasmas can be studied under conditions impossible to reproduce on Earth and unfeasible to observe from astronomical distances. In this paper, we present a brief overview of the mission.