Number 191 (Story #1), August 23, 1994 by Phillip F. Schewe and Ben Stein ULYSSES NEARS THE ANTIPODES. Like Homer's wayfaring hero, the Ulysses spacecraft has now gone where others have never gone before, in this case beneath the Sun's south pole. Ulysses' orbit around the sun (at a radius of 2.4 astronomical units) should take it over the north pole next summer. Two discoveries so far: the solar magnetic field strength has not increased toward the pole as it was supposed to do; and the speed of the solar wind has been measured to be twice as great at the pole as in the plane of the solar equator. (Science News, 6 August 1994.)