The sun's south pole has been seen for the first time from outside the ecliptic plane in unprecedented images sent back to Earth by a solar orbiter. The Solar Orbiter spacecraft travelled 15 degrees ...

Solar Orbiter used a slingshot flyby around Venus in February to get out of this plane to view the sun from up to 17 degrees below the solar equator. Future slingshot flybys will provide an even ...

Up until now, our observations of the Sun have occurred around the solar equator. That’s because all of the planets and operational spacecraft in our Solar System circle the Sun on the same orbital ...

Only a handful of spacecraft have left the plane of the ecliptic, which is the geometric plane containing Earth’s orbit, extending outward through the solar system, and with which most of the ...

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In the coming years, the spacecraft will climb further out of the ecliptic plane for ever better views of the sun's polar regions," ESA’s Solar Orbiter project scientist Daniel Müller said.

Solar Orbiter zooms into the Sun’s south pole Any image you have ever seen of the Sun was taken from around the Sun’s equator. This is because Earth, the other planets, and all other operational ...

Because Earth, like all the planets in our solar system, orbits the sun along a line across a flat, disc-shaped plane in the sky known as the ecliptic. That means all the spacecraft we launch into ...

Until now, all the views of the sun have come from the same vantage point – looking face-on toward its equator from the plane on which Earth and most of the solar system 's other planets orbit ...

The left image looks down from above the ecliptic plane, and the right image provides a side view. (Credit: Kurlander et al. / Sorcha.space / Univ. of Washington) ...

But in February, Solar Orbiter used a gravity-assist flyby around Venus to tilt its trajectory, enabling a view of the sun from about 17 degrees below the equator.