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SPICE sees movement at the Sun’s south pole
The Spectral Imaging of the Coronal Environment (SPICE) instrument on the ESA-led Solar Orbiter spacecraft got…
Solar Orbiter’s view of the Sun’s south pole
From Earth, we always look towards the Sun’s equator. This year, the ESA-led Solar Orbiter mission…
Solar Orbiter’s world-first views of the Sun’s south pole
This collage shows Solar Orbiter’s view of the Sun’s south pole on 16–17 March 2025, from…
PHI’s pole-to-pole view of the Sun’s magnetic field
This video shows a magnetic map of the Sun’s surface, recorded by the ESA-led Solar Orbiter…
SPICE sees the Sun’s south pole
The Spectral Imaging of the Coronal Environment (SPICE) instrument on the ESA-led Solar Orbiter spacecraft got…
Solar Orbiter gets world-first views of the Sun’s poles
Science & Exploration 11/06/2025 604 views 2 likes Thanks to its newly tilted orbit around the…
Solar Orbiter gets world-first views of the Sun’s south pole
What if we could look at the Sun from a whole new angle, one we’ve never…
MetOp-SG-A1 and Sentinel-5 being loaded for their voyage to the launch site
The first of the new generation of MetOp satellites, MetOp-SG-A1, together with the instrument for the…
Axiom 4 crew inside Dragon
Axiom 4 Mission crew training inside a SpaceX Dragon vehicle in Hawthorne, California. From left to…