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    PROBA-3: blotting out the Sun

    Date: 08 Mar 2011
    Satellite: PROBA-3
    Copyright: ESA/ S. Corvaja

    The two satellites of PROBA-3 will fly in formation to form an external coronagraph in space, one satellite eclipsing the Sun to allow the second to study the otherwise invisible solar corona.


    Last Update: 08 Mar 2011

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