Mark McCaughrean on Nostr: Regardless of how it happened, the Sun’s 7.25° obliquity is a reality. And that ...

Regardless of how it happened, the Sun’s 7.25° obliquity is a reality. And that means that as Earth & its spacecraft orbit around the Sun, we can indeed see both poles at different times six months apart, albeit at a glancing angle of just 7.25° at best.

That greatly foreshortens things & gives a distorted view, but nevertheless, you *can* see the Sun’s poles from Earth.

Indeed, ESA even issued a PR about its PROBA-2 mission having done so in 2018 🙂

https://www.esa.int/About_Us/ESAC/An_artificial_Proba-2_view_of_the_solar_north_pole