The probe, equipped with Swiss instruments, has completed the last milestone before entering Mercury's orbit. The European-Japanese space probe has thus come closer to Mercury than ever before ...
I believe the probe is one of the most difficult and historic missions NASA has ever done. Over my career as a space scientist, I built and operated a number of sun-observing instruments.
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The probe had to be meticulously designed to endure the extreme heat and radiation of the corona, only to rapidly cycle back into the cold vacuum of space on its elliptical orbits around the sun.