Why Solar Orbiter is angling towards the Sun’s poles

All images you have ever seen of the Sun were taken from near the Sun’s equator,…

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…