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track by a distance ofjust over 77 million km. the prone delete my probe was launched in february and it is ona probe was launched in february and it is on a mission to learn what makes the sun behave the way it does. chris, thanks very much for joining us. just talk us through the significance of what is happening today. actually, today is a landmark day for two reasons for those who are associated with the mission. first of all, we are on our first orbit after launch in february. we've reached a point in that orbit where we are closest to the sun. that's a big achievement. i've been watching my instruments getting warmer over the last few weeks. now i expect to see it start to get a little bit colder again. the other reason why it's an important day is today's actually formally the first day of our cruise space. we've spent the few months into launch checking

out all the instruments making sure they are working, we completed that exercise. somewhat behind time because of the coronavirus was up but that closed last night and we are on cruise space and start taking science data proper from are on cruise space and start taking science data properfrom now. are on cruise space and start taking science data proper from now. in layman terms, talk us through what you are trying to find out about this on. the sun, first of all, it's important to us, it's the start in oui’ important to us, it's the start in our backyard. we really would like to know how it works. in particular for this mission. we are trying to understand how it's magnetic properties work. you may know that the earth magnetic field is stable and fairies on hundreds of thousands of years. on timescales are short of hours. you may have seen some of the nice images of the dynamics of that. and the interplay that goes on in the corona of the sun, the upper atmosphere between the charge gas

and the magnetic field drives what we call the solar wind out into space and out towards the earth and other planets. that's a very gusty wind. occasionally there are major injections of solar material towards us injections of solar material towards us that can cause some pretty hefty disruption to the earth space and technology in it. we are trying to get close to the sun carrying a set of instruments that will look at the corona be able to view it in different ways of light. also carrying a set of instruments that sampled the solar wind that is coming out past the spacecraft. between those two things we are looking at what's happening on the surface, looking at the source of the wind. and then seeing the wind coming up past us and just trying to connect those two things together to understand exactly how this magnetic dynamics of the sun behaves. ideally, hopefully, understand the science behind it and be able to protect when they sun is going to have these eruptions that disrupt the earth space. just tell us

because of coronavirus you had to work from home on all of this. you would normally be at your operation centre about your while working from home. that's right. this near checkout phase which is turned not so near oui’ checkout phase which is turned not so near our checkout phase should have been over a couple of months ago. and should have all been done from the dedicated facilities and in germany. we got shut out of that pretty all early on in the process. we've had to set up systems at home. i've been operating with a couple of computers and four screens. effectively commending our instruments. the other side of venus from what earlier was my son's nursery room. he's been evicted and this is been my own little command centre for my instruments. mission control from your son's nursery room. that's fantastic. that is about the long and short of it. that's the wave of the future. really fascinating to talk to you thank you. back on earth. greater

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