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The solar wind in the inner heliosphere, inside ~ 5 AU, has been almost fully characterized by the addition of the high heliographic latitude Ulysses mission to the many low latitude inner heliosphere missions that preceded it. The two major omissions are the high latitude solar wind at solar maximum, which will be measured during the second Ulysses polar passages, and the solar wind near the Sun, which could be analyzed by a Solar Probe mission. Here, existing knowledge of the global solar wind in the inner heliosphere is summarized in the context of the new results from Ulysses.
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Suess, S.T., Phillips, J.L., McComas, D.J. et al. The Solar Wind - Inner Heliosphere. Space Science Reviews 83, 75–86 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005069328058
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