The Ulysses legacy, in pictures

The joint ESA/NASA solar mission Ulysses has forever changed the way scientists view the Sun and its effect on the surrounding space. The mission’s major results and the legacy it leaves behind have been presented today at ESA Headquarters in Paris, in view of the impending conclusion of the mission on 1 July 2008.

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Caption: Sketch of the heliospheric magnetic field Credits: ESA (image by C.Carreau) ID number: SEMYGUUG3HF HI-RES JPEG size: 1425 kb HI-RES TIFF size: 8247 kb Related Images: Sun Ulysses

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The ESA/NASA Ulysses mission has carried out unprecedented studies of the Sun’s magnetic field and the way it is transported to outer space.

It has found that close to the Sun, the magnetic field lines follow a specific pattern that varies with latitude, but at distances beyond 3 to 5 times the solar radius they become more uniform and have the same strength at all latitudes.

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