Written by Mounis Hawass
Monday, May 6, 2024 03:24 PM
Bring out intimate and gorgeous views To the sun Their dynamic magnetic structures and extreme temperatures, captured by ESA’s Solar Orbiter in collaboration with NASA’s Parker Solar Probe.
This ever-changing landscape is the appearance of the sun’s nearby field lines emerging from within the sun.
The temperature of the brightest regions is about 1 million degrees Celsius, and the cooler objects appear dark because they absorb radiation.
At the time, the spacecraft was about a third of Earth’s distance from the Sun, making its closest approach of 27 million miles (43 million kilometers) on October 7, 2023. On the same day a This video was recorded by NASA’s Parker Solar Probe. launched.
Instead of imaging the Sun directly, Parker is measuring particles and magnetic fields in the Sun’s corona and in the solar wind. This was a great opportunity for the two missions to work together, as ESA-led Solar Orbiter remote sensing instruments monitor the original sector. of the solar wind that would later flow over the Parker Solar Probe.
