6.2K views · 693 reactions | We're days away from launching Solar Orbiter! This mission is a collaboration between ESA - European Space Agency and NASA, and it will study the Sun like never before. Join us on Friday, Feb. 7 to hear from mission experts. Details: https://go.nasa.gov/2GTOL8j Watch launch coverage live starting at 10:30pm ET on Feb. 9 at nasa.gov/live! | NASA Space Alerts | Facebook

54K views · 832 reactions | Die von Deutschland aus gesteuerte Raumsonde „Solar Orbiter“ ist erfolgreich zu ihrer Mission gestartet. | tagesschau | Facebook

Our new Sun-exploring mission Solar Orbiter lofted to space aboard the US Atlas V 411 rocket from NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration spaceport in Cape Canaveral, Florida at 04:03 GMT (05:03 CET) on 10 February 2020. Solar Orbiter, an ESA-led mission with strong NASA participation, carries a set of ten instruments for imaging the surface of the Sun and studying the environment in its vicinity. The spacecraft will travel around the Sun on an elliptical orbit that will take it as

6.5K views · 864 reactions | ESA's Solar Orbiter obtained new imagery of 'campfires' on the sun in February 2021. The process that creates campfires may "contribute significantly to the heating of the Sun’s outer atmosphere, or corona," according to the European Space Agency. [Full Story](https://trib.al/eRD3VsU) | Space.com | Facebook

3.3K views · 313 reactions | Solar Orbiter and SOHO • View of a Giant...