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We’re about to fly a spacecraft into the Sun for the first time (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

That's a really good point, but wouldn't that be on the other side of the sun? They'll need to wait for the probe to go all the way around before they get their data. I imagine that'd be really tense.