The European Space Agency has used artificial eclipses for years through missions including SOHO, Solar Orbiter, and Proba-3.
The SPICE, STIX, and PHI instruments on Solar Orbiter probed different atmospheric layers and temperature regimes down to the photosphere over a period of about 40 minutes before and during the flare.
Solar Orbiter's Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) resolved structures just a few hundred kilometres across in the corona and recorded images every two seconds during the observation.
During a close approach to the Sun on 30 September 2024, the ESA-led Solar Orbiter captured one of its most detailed views of a large solar flare.
Miho Janvier is ESA's Solar Orbiter co-project scientist.
Pradeep Chitta of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research is the lead author of the study analyzing the 30 September 2024 Solar Orbiter observations.
In March 2022, ESA's Solar Orbiter, ESA and JAXA's BepiColombo mission, and a NASA near-Earth spacecraft were aligned to observe a solar eruption.
The Solar Orbiter spacecraft captured a stunning plasma flare dancing above the solar surface in January 2026.
The project utilized a coordinated multi-spacecraft strategy that included Parker Solar Probe, Solar Orbiter, and NASA's Wind spacecraft.
SOHO frequently contributes to multipoint measurements for missions like Solar Orbiter and NASA's Parker Solar Probe.
SOHO's technological success has influenced the next generation of solar observatories, including ESA's Solar Orbiter and NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory.
The Inouye Solar Telescope captures images of the Sun's middle layers including the photosphere and chromosphere, while Solar Orbiter captures images of the transition region and the corona.
The Solar Orbiter (SolO) is a space-borne solar observatory developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) with support from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
The Solar Orbiter and the Inouye Solar Telescope were precisely aligned to observe the same region of the Sun at the same time.
The first coordinated campaign between the Inouye and Solar Orbiter targeted the same solar active region simultaneously to capture complementary data from ground and space.
The PMI is based on the PHI (Photospheric and Helioseismic Imager), which has been orbiting the Sun since 2020 onboard the ESA Solar Orbiter.
The Solar Orbiter is studying the Sun closely.
Images from Solar Orbiter's Extreme Ultraviolet Imager show the imprints as bright spots.
The new antenna will support current flagship ESA missions including Juice, Solar Orbiter, BepiColombo, Mars Express, and Hera.
The New Norcia 3 antenna will support current ESA flagship missions such as Juice, Solar Orbiter, BepiColombo, Mars Express, and Hera.