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A journey of exploration to the polar regions of a star: probing the solar poles and the heliosphere from high helio-latitude

Schmutz, W.; Fineschi, Silvano; Romoli, Marco +29 more

A mission to view the solar poles from high helio-latitudes (above 60°) will build on the experience of Solar Orbiter as well as a long heritage of successful solar missions and instrumentation (e.g. SOHO Domingo et al. (Solar Phys. 162(1-2), 1-37 1995), STEREO Howard et al. (Space Sci. Rev. 136(1-4), 67-115 2008), Hinode Kosugi et al. (Solar Phys…

LAPLACE: A mission to Europa and the Jupiter System for ESA's Cosmic Vision Programme

Drossart, Pierre; Hartogh, Paul; Sotin, Christophe +40 more

The exploration of the Jovian System and its fascinating satellite Europa is one of the priorities presented in ESA’s “Cosmic Vision” strategic document. The Jovian System indeed displays many facets. It is a small planetary system in its own right, built-up out of the mixture of gas and icy material that was present in the external region of the …

Interstellar heliospheric probe/heliospheric boundary explorer mission—a mission to the outermost boundaries of the solar system

Wimmer-Schweingruber, Robert F.; Valtonen, Eino; Wurz, Peter +4 more

The Sun, driving a supersonic solar wind, cuts out of the local interstellar medium a giant plasma bubble, the heliosphere. ESA, jointly with NASA, has had an important role in the development of our current understanding of the Suns immediate neighborhood. Ulysses is the only spacecraft exploring the third, out-of-ecliptic dimension, while SOHO h…