Credit: Solar Orbiter/EUI Team (ESA and NASA); CSL, IAS, MPS, PMOD/WRC, ROB, UCL/MSSL
ESA/NASA mission returns first data, snaps closest pictures of the Sun. The first images from Solar Orbiter, a new Sun-observing mission by ESA and NASA, have revealed omnipresent miniature solar flares, dubbed ‘campfires’, near the surface of our closest star.
According to the scientists behind the mission, seeing phenomena that were not observable in detail before hints at the enormous potential of Solar Orbiter, which has only just finished its early phase of technical verification known as commissioning.
“These are only the first images and we can already see interesting new phenomena,” says Da...
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