The First Edition of The Sun from Space, completed in 1999, focused on the early
accomplishments of three solar spacecraft, SOHO, Ulysses, and Yohkoh, primarily
during a minimum in the Sun’s 11-year cycle of magnetic activity. The comprehensive
Second Edition includes the main findings of these three spacecraft over
an entire activity cycle, including two minima and a maximum, and discusses the
significant results of six more solar missions. Four of these, the Hinode, RHESSI,
STEREO, and TRACE missions were launched after the First Edition was either
finished or nearly so, and the other two, the ACE and Wind spacecraft, extend our
investigations from the Sun to its varying input to the Earth.