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SUMMARY:The ESA/NASA mission Solar Orbiter
DESCRIPTION:The ESA/NASA mission Solar Orbiter\nDr. Valentín Martínez Pil
 let\n\nSolar Orbiter is the first mission of the ESA Cosmic Vision program
  and that has recently been approved at implementation level. It is an M c
 lass mission with a predicted launch in 2017. Solar Orbiter will approach 
 the Sun to a distance of 0.28 AU and perform coordinated in-situ and remot
 e sensing observations of the Heliosphere and the Sun. It's main scientifi
 c goal is to understand the link between physical processes at the solar s
 urface and their impact in the inner Heliosphere. A series of gravity assi
 st manoeuvres with Venus will kick the mission out of the ecliptic plane u
 ntil it reaches an angle of 35 degrees. From this vantage point, we will o
 bserve for the first time the Solar Poles without suffering from strong pr
 ojection effects. These observations can help us understand key physical i
 ngredients of the solar dynamos such as the meridional flow and the polar 
 field reversal. Solar Orbiter includes ESA and NASA participation and it i
 s the first time a space mission has two instruments where Spain participa
 tes at PI level. In particular IAC/INTA is co-PI of the Polarimetric and H
 elioseismic Imager, a magnetograph to image the solar surface magnetic fie
 ld.
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