NASA and the European Space Agency are set to launch the first close-up images of the sun from their joint Solar Orbiter mission.
“In mid-June, Solar Orbiter made its first close move to the Sun after its launch on February 9, turning on all 10 of its instruments for the first time,” NASA said in a statement on its website. “This flyby captured the closest images ever taken of the sun.”
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Illustration by NASA / ESA Solar Orbiter.
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NASA will reveal the images, along with early data from the Solar Orbiter mission, during a briefing at 8 am EDT on Thursday.
“During the briefing, mission experts will discuss what these close-up images of our star reveal, including what we can learn from new measurements of Solar Orbiter particles and magnetic fields flowing from the sun,” added NASA. in your statement.
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In another project, NASA recently released an impressive video at 61-minute intervals showing a decade in the sun’s life.
The video was created from images taken by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory.
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The Earth star continues to reveal its secrets. NASA’s $ 1.5 billion solar probe Parker mission, launched in 2018, has brought humanity closer to the sun than ever before and the spacecraft is helping scientists shed new light on the star.
Associated Press contributed to this article. Follow James Rogers on Twitter @jamesjrogers
