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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 ...
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.
Solar Orbiter spacecraft obtains first images of the sun's poles
The robotic Solar Orbiter spacecraft has obtained the first images ever taken of our sun's two poles as scientists seek a ...
Solar Orbiter captures 1st images of sun's south pole 5 years after Florida launch
The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter, which launched in 2020 from Cape Canaveral, captured the first-ever images of the ...
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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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Watch A 'Solar Snake' Slither Across The Sun In Orbiter View
ESA's Solar Orbiter captured a "tube of cooler atmospheric gases snaking its way through the Sun’s magnetic field," according ...
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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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First-ever images of the Sun's south pole captured by ESA probe
ESA's Solar Orbiter deep-space probe has made history, returning the first-ever images of the Sun's south pole. It's a world first that sheds a great deal of light on the mysteries of our parent star, ...
Solar Orbiter Captures Jaw-Dropping First Images Of Sun's South Pole
The European Space Agency's (ESA) Solar Orbiter spacecraft has delivered the first-ever close-up images of the Sun's ...
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 ...
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Sun's South Pole In Stunning High-Res Solar Orbiter
The Solar Orbiter has delivered the "highest resolution image ever of the Sun’s south pole", according to the European Space ...