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From this encounter. you mentioned the aircraft staying healthy and safe. this is obviously very close to the sun. how does the spacecraft protect itself from that incredible heat and that radiation? well, it carries a sunshield that actually has one side of the spacecraft that is designed to be pointed at that hot surface of the sun, and a lot of the other instruments and systems of the spacecraft hide underneath it like an umbrella. so that does limit the directions that the spacecraft can point. 0nce they're in orbit around mercury, the instruments are designed in order to be able to stare ...

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