The Solar Orbiter, built by NASA and ESA, launched from Cape Canaveral and began its journey to get a close, unprecedented look at the sun.
The Solar Orbiter launched from Cape Canaveral and began its journey to get a close, unprecedented look at our star.
The mission, which is a joint collaboration between NASA and the European Space Agency, launched at 11:03 p.m. ET Sunday. This is the first mission that will provide images of the sun's north and south poles using a suite of six instruments on board that will capture the spacecraft's view. Having a visual understanding of the sun's poles is important because it can provide more insight about the sun's powerful magnetic field and how it affects Earth.
— NASA February 10, 2020 "Up until Solar Orbiter, all solar imaging instruments have been within the ecliptic plane or very close to it," said Russell Howard, space scientist at the Naval Research Lab in Washington, D.C. and principal investigator for one of Solar Orbiter's ten instruments."Now, we'll be able to look down on the sun from above.
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