The Solar Orbiter (SolO) [7] is a Sun -observing probe developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) with a NASA contribution. Solar Orbiter, designed to obtain detailed measurements of the inner …

Solar Orbiter is the most complex scientific laboratory ever sent to our life-giving star, taking images of the Sun from closer than any spacecraft before and being the first to look at its polar regions.

May 16, 2025 · An international cooperative mission between the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA, Solar Orbiter is a Sun-observing satellite with 10 science instruments, all designed to provide …

Feb 6, 2025 · Solar Orbiter is a collaborative space mission between the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA, designed to study the Sun up close and in unprecedented detail.

Solar Orbiter can now provide this missing piece of the puzzle," says Sami Solanki, MPS director and co-author of a new study on this topic appearing in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

The Solar Orbiter is an unprecedented scientific mission designed to explore our Sun like never before. With its advanced instruments, it provides close-up images of the Sun, including the first-ever views …

Nov 10, 2025 · All the latest science news on solar-orbit from Phys.org. Find the latest news, advancements, and breakthroughs.

By approaching the Sun as close as 0.28 AU (Astronomical Unit, the mean Earth to Sun distance), Solar Orbiter views and diagnoses the solar atmosphere globally and with high spatial resolution and …

Nov 17, 2025 · Solar Orbiter observed a self-consistent ion-scale magnetic hole (MH) in the solar wind The deep MH, with a minimum magnetic field of 0.15 nT, leads to quasi-isotropic ion pitch-angle …

Dec 5, 2022 · During its mission, Solar Orbiter will raise its orbit beyond the ecliptic plane in which the planets reside in order to view the sun's poles in detail for the first time in history.