Solar Orbiter’s highest-resolution full views of the Sun
Join us on a unique video tour of the Sun’s mesmerising surface. Thanks to its innovative instrumentation and a ‘daring’ trajectory passing close to the Sun, ESA’s Solar Orbiter spacecraft has obtained the highest-resolution full views of the Sun’s surface to date.
Watching the Sun in visible light, Solar Orbiter reveals a grainy surface and dark sunspots. On the same day, the spacecraft mapped the Sun’s magnetic field, tracked how fast and in which direction scorching hot material on the surface is moving, and snapped a hypnotising image in ultraviolet light of the Sun’s upper atmosphere, the corona. All taken on the same day, the four new images shown in this video let us peel away the Sun’s many layers.
The images were taken when Solar Orbiter was less than 74 million kilometres from the Sun; being so close meant each high-resolution image only covers a small portion of the Sun. To obtain the full-disc views showcased in the video, 25 images were stitched together like a mosaic. The Sun has a diameter of around 8000 pixels in the full mosaics, revealing an extraordinary amount of detail.
Credit: ESA – European Space Agency
Acknowledgements: Sun images: ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/PHI and EUI Teams; Solar Orbiter spacecraft animation: ESA/ATG medialab; Voiceover: Juliet Hannay
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The Sun is very hot… literally! 🥵Now, what about a space station orbiting the Sun…? From a safe distance, of course! 🌞
Spettacolare!!!
☀️ o sol ☀️
Next time drop the volume of the music so we can hear the person talking clearly!
Our Mighty Sun☀
This vid needed to be about 20 min longer
Na chuj ta muzyka, dajcie babie pogadac
Like the flyby on mars too 👍☺👍
At which distance orbits the satellite and what's the temperature around there?
Ó profundidade da riqueza, tanto da sabedoria como do conhecimento de Deus! Quão insondáveis são os seus juízos, e quão inescrutáveis, os seus caminhos! Quem, pois, conheceu a mente do Senhor? Ou quem foi o seu conselheiro? Ou quem primeiro deu a ele para que lhe venha a ser restituído? Porque dele, e por meio dele, e para ele são todas as coisas. A ele, pois, a glória eternamente. Amém!
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