Spacecraft Sends Back Historic First-Ever Images Of Sun’s South Pole
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While these first polar images are scientifically valuable, the real impact remains to be seen when the complete dataset arrives in October 2025. The mission's expensive and complex orbital maneuvers represent a significant investment that must prove its worth through concrete improvements in space weather forecasting. Current observations simply confirm what scientists already expected about magnetic field behavior during solar maximum.