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ESA's Solar Orbiter probe photographs the solar South Pole for the first time.

The European Solar Orbiter probe has taken pictures of one of the sun's poles. According to the European Space Agency (ESA), this is the first time ever that the sun has been photographed from this perspective.

As ESA inclined the orbit of the Solar Orbiter relative to the orbital plane, the probe could observe the south pole of the sun.

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A photo of the south pole of the sun, taken by Solar Orbiter in March 2025. | (Image: ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/EUI Team, D. Berghmans (ROB))
Heise Online · ESA's Solar Orbiter probe photographs the solar South Pole for the first time.By Werner Pluta
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First images of the Sun's south pole!

Solar Orbiter is the first space probe to look at the Sun's poles – and finds the magnetic field there in a state of turmoil. The Sun's magnetic field is currently undergoing a flip. During its latest flyby of the Sun at the end of March this year, the Solar Orbiter space probe had its first clear view of our star's poles. First images:

mps.mpg.de/first-images-of-the

esa.int/Science_Exploration/Sp

This image shows a magnetic field map from Solar Orbiter's Polarimetric and Helioseismic Imager (PHI) instrument, centred on the Sun's south pole. Blue indicates positive magnetic field, pointing towards the spacecraft, and red indicates negative magnetic field. On an off-set concentric grid with an overall yellow base color, blue and red bent stripe-like structures are sprinkled across the field of view. © ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/PHI Team, J. Hirzberger (MPS)
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Tim
During the first days of May I've been on a 4-day-trip to Luxembourg with a dear friend of mine.

After arriving in Luxembourg City and checking in our hotel on Wednesday evening, we got up early and tested the free public transit on Thursday.
With an intercity train, a funicular and by bus we travelled to Echternach which lies near the border with Germany and is the oldest town in Luxembourg.
We had a clear and - atleast for us - ambitious goal in mind: stage two of the popular Mullerthal trail.

Duration: 9 hours and 5 minutes (excluding various breaks accumulating to more or less 2 hours)
Length: 37.75 km
Elevation: 160 m to 385 m
Ascent/Descent: 950 m ↑ and 950 m ↓

#Hiking #GoHiking #HikingView #HikingAdventures #HikingLuxembourg #Wanderlust #Wandern #Luxembourg #Luxemburg #Letzebuerg #VisitLuxembourg #Müllertal #Mullerthal #Mëllerdall #MullerthalTrailMoments #MullerthalRegion #MüllertalTrail #MullerthalTrail #Trail #TrailMemories #LittleSwitzerland #KleineLuxemburgerSchweiz #Echternach #Sandsteinfelsen #Sandstone #Sun #Sunlight #Forest #ForestLovers #Waldbaden #Travel #ScenicsNature #Nature #OutdoorAdventure
We started our hike in Echternach. This is the view over the town and its sourroundings after the first metres in altitude. The sky is clear and light blue and the sun is burning. A group of sheep are standing peacefully in a meadow in the foreground.
The trail heads through an arch made of sandstone.
Passage between two giant sandstone walls in the Mullerthal forests. A lonely tree is nearly blocking the passage.
The aforementioned passage gets narrower.
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grobi

This animation shows all L3 WISPR full-field observations from the twenty-first PSP Mission Encounter (2024-09-25 - 2024-10-05). We have superimposed a grid showing helioprojective longitude and latitude, and a scale representation of the size and location of the Sun in the observations using the SDO/HMI Carrington map for this time period. The velocity and distance metrics displayed on the movies correspond respectively to the spacecraft's heliocentric velocity in kilometers per second, and its distance from the Sun's center in units of solar radii (where 1 solar radius = 695,700km). The "FOV Range" label provides the plane-of-sky distance limits of the inner and outermost edges of the fields of view, in units of solar radii. The horizontal blue line indicates the orbital plane of PSP. The timespan of this composite movie covers only the nominal science window when the spacecraft was within 0.25 au; a limited amount of data outside of this range may be available at the below links.
You can download this movie directly as an 101MB mp4 file. This sequence is also available as data processed via the LW Algorithm developed by Dr. Guillermo Stenborg (JHUAPL) and detailed in Appendix A of Howard et al. 2022 (ApJ, 936, id.43. DOI 10.3847/1538-4357/ac7ff5). Please contact the team for access to this data, which will be posted here one year after the acquisition of those observations. Team contact information can be found in Section 1.2 of the WISPR User's Guide
wispr.nrl.navy.mil/sites/wispr [PDF link].

[Credit: NASA/NRL/JHUAPL. Movie processed/compiled by Guillermo Stenborg (JHUAPL) and Karl Battams (NRL). SDO inset courtesy of NASA/SDO and the AIA, EVE, and HMI science teams.]

/*grobi: for a better resolution go to:
wispr.nrl.navy.mil/encounter21 but that's a huge file !:D

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Most Venusian co-orbitals are nearly #invisible from Earth because they often remain in the #Sun’s glare ☀️. “While surveys like those from the #RubinObservatory 🔭 @VRubinObs may be able to detect some of these #asteroids ☄️ in the near future, we believe that only a dedicated observational campaign from a space-based 🌌 mission near #Venus could potentially map and discover all the still ‘invisible’ potentially #hazardous asteroids” dailygalaxy.com/2025/05/is-ven

Is Venus Hiding A Deadly Threat New Study Warns Of Invisible Asteroids On A Collision Course With Earth
The Daily Galaxy - Great Discoveries Channel · Is Venus Hiding a Deadly Threat? New Study Warns of Invisible Asteroids on a Collision Course With EarthA hidden swarm of asteroids orbiting with Venus may be silently drifting toward Earth—and we might not see them coming until it’s too late.
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