Solar Orbiter Plane records incredible sightings of the sun, temperature of 1 million degrees Celsius

PARIS – Sightings Sun as the center of the extraordinary solar system captured closely Solar Orbiter mission belonging to the European Space Agency (ESA). Solar activity is known to have increased over the past year, causing all sorts of problems in the near-Earth environment.

ESA, which operates the spacecraft, releases sequences every day as the Solar Orbiter mission approaches in high resolution for 20 days. The image shows the 20-day observation of the star Solar Orbiter, taken between September 20 and October 10, 2022.

The image was taken with the high resolution Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) of the spacecraft operating in full sun mode. This image allows scientists to see what the entire surface of the sun looks like.

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The footage reveals that the sun is spinning and appears to glow with activity in its gaseous atmosphere, the corona, where temperatures reach 1.8 million degrees Fahrenheit or 1 million degrees Celsius. “Scientists have increased the color because the human eye cannot see the ultraviolet wavelengths detected by the instrument,” ESA said in a statement.

The Solar Orbiter makes regular passes close to the Sun at a distance of about one third from the Sun-Earth, in the orbit of the planet Mercury. As it flew, this fifth spacecraft reached the closest point to the sun.

Solar Orbiter, launched in 2020, did not dive as close to NASA’s Parker Solar Probe as possible. The Solar Orbiter is also different from the Parker Solar Probe which is equipped with a high resolution camera. These two missions have allowed a huge leap forward in providing information on the largest star at the center of our solar system.

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The Solar Orbiter also flies regularly from the planet Venus, using its gravity to gradually tilt its orbit out of the ecliptic plane in which the planets orbit. This maneuver eventually allowed the Solar Orbiter to see the poles of the sun in detail, something a spacecraft had never done before.

Scientists believe the polar regions contain clues to how the sun produces its magnetic field. This in turn drives an 11-year cycle of activity, such as ebbs and flows in the production of sunspots, solar flares and eruptions.