The Solar Orbiter space probe approached the Sun for the second time on October 12 at 20:12 Moscow time. In that
The video posted by ESA was filmed on October 13shortly after passing the nearest point. It was created using data from the Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging (EUI) probe, which provides the highest image quality available today.
Video: ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/EUI Team; acknowledgment: Frédéric Auchère, IAS
Each image pixel covers 105 km of the Sun's surface. And the area of the entire frame is a surface equivalent to 2,048 planets, the size of the Earth.
The corona is the outer atmosphere of the Sun.This video shows a "calm" area with almost no signs of activity. The electrically charged gas, known here as plasma, is in constant motion, guided and accelerated by changes in the Sun's magnetic field. The vaults of bright plasma in the film are held in place by loops of magnetism that extend into the outer shell from the interior of the star.
Earlier, ESA published an animation formed from frames taken by Solar Orbiter as it approached a star.
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On the cover: Artistic illustration of the Solar Orbiter approaching the Sun. Image: ESA, Medialab