07 February 2020
ESA's Solar Orbiter mission set to launch on 10 February
... where it will face blistering temperatures of up to 500°C. Solar Orbiter’s mission objective is to collect data on the Sun’s turbulent solar surface, its hot outer atmosphere and changes in the solar wind with a combination of ten in situ and remote...
17 July 2020
Solar Orbiter spots country-sized ‘campfires’ on the Sun
...press conference yesterday. The ‘campfires’ were detected with Solar Orbiter’s Extreme Ultraviolet Imager, or EUI instrument, which...us a lot of confidence that we will be able to see solar wind structures when we get closer to the Sun." PHI on the ...
16 September 2020
The Sun enters a new cycle and will reach a peak in 2025
... process NOAA are launching a Space Weather Follow-On (SWFO) satellite designed to make direct, in-situ, measurements of the solar wind thermal plasma and magnetic field “up-stream” of the Earth. This will help scientists to provide warnings about...
10 May 2021
Sun's biggest outburst this cycle is sending solar storms to Earth and Mars
... (NOAA) are also launching a Space Weather Follow-On (SWFO) satellite designed to make direct, in-situ, measurements of the solar wind thermal plasma and magnetic field “up-stream” of the Earth. This will help provide warnings about potential...
31 January 2020
First images of new solar telescope produces most detailed images of the Sun
... hits Earth makes life possible. In the 1950s, scientists figured out that a solar wind blows from the sun to the edges of the solar system. They also deduced for the first time that we live inside the...
August 2017
Big science from small spacecraft
... Destinations So where can we reasonably expect to explore in our Solar System with smaller spacecraft? The Sun is an obvious target, ... magnetic field, including its interaction with the solar wind. Observing our Sun The Sun is a massive, roiling, dynamic...
