Photo voltaic Orbiter mission spots eruption from the solar
These eruptions were detected by multiple instruments on the spacecraft during a close flyby of the sun, which is called a perihelion, on February 10. This flyby brought the spacecraft within 46.5 million miles of the sun — that’s half the distance between the massive star and Earth.
This is the first time the orbiter has witnessed such eruptions.
The mission, which launched in February 2020, is a collaboration between NASA and the European Space Agency. Although Solar Orbiter’s main scientific agenda doesn’t begin until November — to study the sun’s north and south poles — it has already made close passes by the sun that captured the closest images ever taken of our star and revealed “campfires” near its surface.
Currently the spacecraft is in its cruise phase, which allows for calibration of some of the 10 instruments aboard. During the cruise phase, four of its instruments are up and running and have been since launch. The February flyby presented mission teams with an…
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