Europe and NASA's Solar Orbiter rocketed into space Sunday night on an unprecedented mission to capture the first pictures of the sun's elusive poles. Go Solar Orbiter!" Solar Orbiter launches to map sun's polar regions 1:44Solar Orbiter was made in Europe, along with nine science instruments. At its closest approach, Solar Orbiter will come within 42 million kilometres of the sun, well within the orbit of Mercury. This illustration made available by NASA depicts the Solar Orbiter satellite in front of the Sun.

Source: CBC News February 10, 2020 14:04 UTC