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A Last-Minute Addition to the Solar Orbiter Allows it to See More Deeply into the Sun's Atmosphere


cecraft instruments are highly specialized and can take years to design, build, and test. But a last-minute hack to one of the instruments on the ESA's Solar Orbiter has allowed the spacecraft to take some difficult observations it would otherwise have been unable to take.

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