07 February 2020
ESA's Solar Orbiter mission set to launch on 10 February
... simulation training, the European Space Agency’s mission control is counting down the hours to the launch of their Solar Orbiter mission. Scheduled for launch Monday 10 February 04:03 GMT (05:03 CET) on top of an Atlas V rocket from Space Launch...
17 July 2020
Solar Orbiter spots country-sized ‘campfires’ on the Sun
... the size of a European country, said mission scientists in a press conference yesterday. The ‘campfires’ were detected with Solar Orbiter’s Extreme Ultraviolet Imager, or EUI instrument, which takes high-resolution images of the lower layers of the...
10 May 2021
Sun's biggest outburst this cycle is sending solar storms to Earth and Mars
... and Mars in what is being called the largest solar flare of Solar Cycle 25 yet. The Earth-bound eruption has been...: The Nature of Turbulence in Space Plasmas; Multi-slit Solar Explorer (MUSE); Auroral Reconstruction CubeSwarm (ARCS) and Solaris:...
15 May 2020
An unexpected meeting could see Solar Orbiter study Comet ATLAS
...both the craft and comet. Packed on board Solar Orbiter is a Solar Wind Plasma Analyzer (SWA). This instrument will be...the American Astronomical Society. All eyes will now be on Solar Orbiter and if the spacecraft’s instruments do detect material from...
25 November 2020
Solar astronomers "listening" to the Sun can now predict future sunspots
... a finding that can help mitigate the effects of powerful solar storms that have the potential to disrupt satellites in orbit... surges that lead to black outs. Presently, the US National Solar Observatory provides “eyes on the Sun” all day every day ...
31 May 2017
NASA to 'touch the Sun' with Parker Solar Probe
... Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. Nonetheless, as a recent study by the National Academy of Sciences estimated that a huge solar event could cause two trillion dollars in damage in the US alone without any prior warning, data collected...
