Hot Passage

1995-03-22T00:00:00

The European Space Agency's Ulysses spacecraft passed within 200 million kilometres of the Sun on 12 March. This is the closest it will fly to the Sun during its flights over the south and north poles. The previous closest approach was 43.5 million kilometres, by the US/German probe, the Helios ...

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