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ESA’s Solar Orbiter should solve the longstanding puzzle about why the Sun’s outer corona is so much hotter than its surface.
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Humanity takes its 1st look at the sun's poles: 'This is just the first step of Solar Orbiter's stairway to heaven' (images)The Solar Orbiter has captured humanity's first look at the south pole of the sun, revealing messy magnetic fields and ...
A recent Venus flyby pushed the spacecraft out of Earth's orbital plane, allowing it to gaze at the solar poles.
The Solar Orbiter spacecraft took the image near the Sun on March 23, 2025, and it was announced on June 11, 2025.
The spacecraft's tilted orbit will allow scientists to investigate the mechanisms behind space weather that impact crucial ...
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ESA’s Solar Orbiter reveals the Sun’s poles for the first timeESA has just released the first-ever images taken of the Sun's south pole, as seen this year by the Solar Orbiter spacecraft.
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Here Are the First Images of the Sun’s South Pole, a Completely New View in Our Solar SystemLearn how the European Space Agency’s spacecraft captured a completely new view of the Sun, thanks to its novel tilted orbit.
One such discovery made regarding the Sun’s magnetic field is that, at the solar south pole, the Sun’s magnetic field is ...
Prior to the ESA releasing the photos, any image you have ever seen of the sun was taken from around its equator. The Solar Orbiter launched February 2020 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in ...
The ESA has finally captured photos of the Sun's south pole, unlocking the door to how our Sun's magnetic field works.
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