The Solar Orbiter mission

By R. Marsden, Bernhard Fleck. Optics & Photonics - Optical Engineering + Applications, 2020

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The ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter mission will address the central question of heliophysics: How does the Sun create and control the heliosphere? The heliosphere represents a uniquely accessible domain of space, where fundamental physical processes common to solar, astrophysical and laboratory plasmas can be studied under conditions impossible to reproduce on Earth and unfeasible to observe from astronomical distances. In this paper, we present a brief overview of the mission.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics

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The Solar Orbiter magnetometer (2020, background): “…and with more modern instrumentation and remote sensing instruments not carried by either Helios or Parker Solar Probe, the Solar Orbiter mission (Müller et al. 2013, 2020) will explore the inner Solar System with the goal of determining how the Sun creates and controls the heliosphere.”
The Solar Orbiter EUI instrument: The Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (2020, background): “The spacecraft will bring a combination of in situ (Horbury et al. 2020) and remote-sensing instruments (Auchère et al. 2020) out of the ecliptic (>30◦) and close to the Sun (<0.3 AU), to answer the following four questions (Müller et al. 2020): 1.”
The Spectrometer/Telescope for Imaging X-rays (STIX) (2020, background): “The Spectrometer/Telescope for Imaging X-rays (STIX) supports the Solar Orbiter mission (Müller et al. 2020, Auchère et al., 2020, Walsh et al. 2020, Zouganelis et al. 2020, Rouillard et al. 2020) with hard X-ray imaging spectroscopy measurements, providing diagnostics of the hottest ('10 MK)…”