Just once it is normal to look the sun – Provision that you envisaged images of the newly published history of the European Space Agency (ESA) of the South South pole.
Caught near the sun on March 23 and revealed in Earthlings Wednesday June 11, the new images of the solar orbit in ESA show a view of our star that no human or spatial has never recorded before. While the Earth and the other planets orbit relatively in accordance with the Equator of the Sun on an invisible plan called the ecliptic solar orbit have spent the last months tilting its orbit at 17 degrees under the solar equator – visiting the first enigmatic south pole of our star.
“Today, we reveal the first views of humanity on the post of the sun”, ” Carole MundellThe ESA director of sciences, said in a statement. “These new unique views of our Solar Orbiter mission are the beginning of a new era of solar science.”
The new images capture the solar pole in a wide strip of visible and ultraviolet wavelengths, using three of the 10 instruments on board Solar Orbiter. The result is a colored confetti of solar data, including an unprecedented look at the perplexed tangles of the Magnetic Sun field While he is preparing to returnAnd the high speed movements of specific chemical elements when they drive plasma plumes that make up the solar wind – the constant flow of loaded particles that governs the space weather throughout our solar system.
These data will help improve our understanding of solar wind, spatial time and activity cycle of about 11 years of the sun for the years to come, according to ESA.
But of a particular interest at the moment, like the sun Overdrive rocket spits During his peak activity period (called solar), are the magnetic measurements taken with the instrument of polarimetric and helosical imaging (PHI) of the solar orbiter.
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Solar phi cards magnetic field Highlight an intriguing paradox: while most magnets have a distinct north and southern pole, the southern pole of the sun is both with magnetic fields of north and south polarity (represented in the form of blue and red plates in the corresponding images).
According to ESA, this magnetism mess is a temporary phenomenon which suggests that the magnetic field of the sun is about to return, as it does once every 11 years. This magnetic reversal means the end of the maximum solar with high activity and begins a transition to the relative calm of the next minimum solar. When the following minimum will start, in about five to six years, the poles of the sun should show only one type of magnetic polarity each while our star only launches Bantrums of Violent Space Time.
The solar orbiter will have several other chances of testing these forecasts in the coming years. With a little help from the gravitational attraction of Venus, Solar Orbiter will continue to tilt his orbit further from the solar equator, reaching an inclination of 24 degrees in December 2026 and 33 degrees in June 2029.
“This is only the first stage of” Stairway to Heaven “by Solar Orbiter,” Daniel MüllerSaid the Scientist of the Solar Orbiter project in ESA, in the press release. “These data will transform our understanding of the magnetic field of the sun, solar wind and solar activity.”
