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xkcd - A Webcomic - Parker Solar Probe (2262)
 
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It will get within 9 or 10 Sun-diameters of the "bottom" (the
Sun's surface) which seems pretty far when you put it that way,
but from up here on Earth it's practically all the way down.
 
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