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Twin Proba-3 spacecraft create artificial solar eclipse
In a precision flying formation, the European Space Agency (ESA) mission revealed new insights into the sun's mysterious ...
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Humanity takes its 1st look at the sun's poles: 'This is just the first step of Solar Orbiter's stairway to heaven' (images)
The Solar Orbiter has captured humanity's first look at the south pole of the sun, revealing messy magnetic fields and ...
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See the First-Ever Direct Images of the Sun’s South Pole, Captured by the Solar Orbiter Spacecraft
The spacecraft's tilted orbit will allow scientists to investigate the mechanisms behind space weather that impact crucial ...
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Solar Orbiter’s Daring Orbit Reveals Sun’s South Pole and Unravels Mysteries of Solar Magnetism
We didn’t know what exactly to expect from these first observations — the Sun’s poles are literally terra incognita,” said ...
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ESA’s Solar Orbiter reveals the Sun’s poles for the first time
ESA has just released the first-ever images taken of the Sun's south pole, as seen this year by the Solar Orbiter spacecraft.
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Solar Orbiter mission captures images of the Sun's south pole for the first time ever
Solar Orbiter captures first-ever images of the Sun’s poles, offering insights into solar magnetism, atmospheric motion, and ...
How two satellites are mimicking total solar eclipses in space
A pair of European satellites have created the first artificial solar eclipses through precise and fancy formation flying ...
Solar Orbiter Captures First Clear Views of Sun’s South Pole—and It’s a Hot Mess
A recent Venus flyby pushed the spacecraft out of Earth's orbital plane, allowing it to gaze at the solar poles.
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Here Are the First Images of the Sun’s South Pole, a Completely New View in Our Solar System
Learn how the European Space Agency’s spacecraft captured a completely new view of the Sun, thanks to its novel tilted orbit.
ESA's Solar Orbiter probe photographs solar South Pole for the first time
As ESA inclined the orbit of the Solar Orbiter relative to the orbital plane, the probe could observe the south pole of the ...
USA Today4d
Spacecraft unveils 1st-ever images of sun's south pole: 'Beginning of a new era'
Prior to the ESA releasing the photos, any image you have ever seen of the sun was taken from around its equator. The Solar Orbiter launched February 2020 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in ...
The ESA just snapped the first photos of the Sun’s south pole
The ESA has finally captured photos of the Sun's south pole, unlocking the door to how our Sun's magnetic field works.