It’s pretty impressive and I’m looking forward to some cracking images. I’m also surprised they can get it so close:
The Sun's emissions have profound impacts at Earth that go far beyond just providing light and warmth.
Often, they are disruptive; outbursts of charged particles with their entrained magnetic fields will trip electronics on satellites and degrade radio communications.
I wonder how many cheeks were sucked by the engineers when the idea was first mooted. Even after 50-60 years, space research is still exciting (at least to me.)
