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The European Space Agency's Ulysses spacecraft, the first probe to pass over the poles of the Sun, reached its maximum latitude of 80.2° north of the Sun's equator on 31 July. The spacecraft had traveled 2.56 billion kilometres since its deployment from the Space Shuttle Discovery in October 1990.
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