Exploring the heliosphere in three dimensions a keynote presentation

Abstract

The 28th ESLAB Symposium marks the beginning of the sprint of the Ulysses mission to the very high heliographic latitudes and the pole-to-pole passage. The more than twenty-year quest to understand the Sun and the heliosphere in three dimensions is about to be realized. It is perhaps worthwhile, as we are poised to begin this journey, to ask how history is likely to judge this mission, or equivalently: what questions need to be answered so that the judgment will be kind?