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Browsing: Solar Orbiter
The Solar Orbiter is a space mission collaboratively developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA, launched in February 2020 with the purpose of studying the Sun. It is designed to get closer to the Sun than the orbit of Mercury, providing unprecedented observations of the Sun’s surface and its outer atmosphere, the corona. The Solar Orbiter carries a suite of ten scientific instruments, which enable it to capture high-resolution images and gather data on the Sun’s magnetic fields, solar wind, and solar flares. One of its key objectives is to explore the Sun’s polar regions, which have been relatively unexamined but are crucial for understanding the Sun’s magnetic field and its effect on space weather. The data collected by the Solar Orbiter will help scientists better understand the Sun’s dynamics and its impact on the heliosphere, thereby improving our ability to forecast space weather events that can affect satellites and terrestrial technologies.
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Newly discovered “plumelets” may hold the key to understanding solar wind disturbances and their effects…
Solar Orbiter is getting ready for the first of many gravity-assist flybys of Venus on…
Solar Orbiter’s latest results show that the mission is making the first direct connections between…
ESA has released its first Solar Orbiter data to the scientific community and the wider…
The first images from ESA’s Solar Orbiter are already exceeding expectations and revealing interesting new…
The first images from Solar Orbiter, a new Sun-observing mission by ESA and NASA, have…
The first images from ESA/NASA’s Solar Orbiter are now available to the public, including the…
Scientists from NASA and ESA (European Space Agency) will release the first data captured by…
ESA’s Solar Orbiter has successfully completed four months of painstaking technical verification, known as commissioning.…
ESA’s Sun-exploring mission Solar Orbiter has made its first close approach to the star on…
NASA’s Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory, or STEREO-A spacecraft, captured these images of comet ATLAS as…
ESA’s Solar Orbiter will cross through the tails of Comet ATLAS during the next few…
First measurements by a Solar Orbiter science instrument reached the ground on Thursday February 13,…
Last night, ESA’s Planetary Defence team observed the rare moment in which an object escaped…
Highlights from the preparation and liftoff of ESA’s Sun-exploring mission Solar Orbiter. Solar Orbiter lofted…
[Watch Solar Orbiter Launch Video.] Solar Orbiter, a new collaborative mission between ESA (European Space…