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Today’s flyby will be the first to significantly ‘tilt’ the spacecraft’s orbit and allow it to see the Sun’s polar regions, which cannot be seen from Earth.

Huh, it never occurred to me that we haven't seen what the Sun looks like from above or below the plane of the solar system.