Seeking the Sun's secrets

Name: Seeking the Sun's secrets
Uploaded: 2018-09-17T21:49:09.000Z
Duration: 5 min 50 s
Description: UK engineers finish building a spacecraft that will carry cameras closer to the Sun than ever before.

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UK engineers have finished building the European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter satellite. Its mission is to try to understand what drives the Sun's activity, using a suite of 10 instruments. One of the principal investigators on SolO is Tim Horbury of Imperial College London. He briefed our science correspondent Jonathan Amos.

Science & Environment

17 September 2018