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Solar Orbiter Science Press Briefing
Feb. 7, 2020, 9:30 a.m.
Read moreDuring its closest approaches of the Sun, Solar Orbiter will travel fast enough to study how magnetically active regions evolve for up to four weeks at a time. Solar Orbiter will return the first images and measurements of the Sun’s polar magnetic field, helping scientists relate the poles to the solar activity cycle.Credit: ESA/ATG Medialab || NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) will present Solar Orbiter, the ESA/NASA mission to the Sun, during a science press briefing on Friday, Feb. 7. 2020, at 2.30 p.m. EST. Solar Orbiter will observe the Sun with high spatial resolution telescopes and capture observations in the environment directly surrounding the spacecraft to create a one-of-a-kind picture of how the Sun can affect the space environment throughout our solar system. The spacecraft also will provide the first-ever images of the Sun’s poles and the never-before-observed magnetic environment there, which helps drive the Sun’s 11-year solar cycle and its periodic outpouring of solar storms.The teleconference audio will stream live at:https://www.nasa.gov/liveParticipants include:European Space Agency• Daniel Müller, Solar Orbiter Project Scientist• Günther Hasinger, Director of ScienceNASA• Nicky Fox, Heliophysics Division Director, NASA HQ• Thomas Zurbuchen, Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate, NASA HQ || Solar Orbiter orbiting the Sun. Over its seven-year mission, the spacecraft will go as close as 26 million miles from the Sun.Credit: NASA s Scientific Visualization Studio/Tom Bridgman || Animation showing the deployment of the boom and antennas. Solar Orbiter carries a comprehensive suite of 10 instruments that take both in situ and remote measurements.Credit: ESA/ATG Medialab || Animation of a coronal mass ejection impacting Mars, Earth, and Jupiter. Solar Orbiter is equipped to image such eruptions as they burst from the Sun, and measure the eruption directly as it passes the spacecraft.Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Conceptual Image Lab/Bailee DesRocher || Image of NASA’s heliophysics observatory fleet. Credit: NASA || Image of the European Space Agency’s solar system explorers. Credit: ESA || Animation of the Artemis program’s lunar lander concept. Credit: NASA
The Solar Polar Magnetic Field
Feb. 4, 2020, 7 a.m.
Read moreThis movie gives a view starting at equator and tipping to a view of the north heliographic pole (the blue axis) then dipping down to the south heliographic pole. Closed field lines are white/grey, green and violet lines represent field lines that are considered s polar magnetic field a significant influence on the space weather impacting Earth and crewed and uncrewed assets around the solar system. || This movie has a view (roughly) from the position of SDO. The polar gap rings are not shown on these. || This movie has a view a fixed solar longitude so the Sun does not appear to rotate. The polar gap rings are not shown on these.
Solar Orbiter Trailer - Videos in English and Spanish
Feb. 4, 2020, 6 a.m.
Read moreMusic: Find Her by Yuri SazonoffAnimation by ESA/ATG MedialabWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || Solar Orbiter is the ESA/NASA collaboration soon to start its journey to the Sun. Solar Orbiter has uniquely tilted orbit that will enable it to capture the first images of the Sun’s North and South poles and tackle major solar mysteries with its comprehensive suite of ten different instruments.Solar Orbiter es una colaboración de ESA y NASA que pronto empezará su viaje hacia el Sol. Solar Orbiter tiene una órbita inclinada única que le permitirá capturar las primeras imágenes de los polos norte y sur del Sol y abordar grandes misterios solares con su completo conjunto de diez instrumentos. || Música: Find Her, por Yuri SazonoffAnimación por ESA/ATG MedialabMira este vídeo en el canal de YouTube de la NASA en español.La transcripción completa
Solar Orbiter Graphics
Feb. 3, 2020, noon
Read moreCredit: ESA/ATG medialab || Credit: ESA/ATG medialab || Credit: ESA/ATG medialab || Credit: ESA/ATG medialab || Credit: ESA/ATG medialab || Credit: ESA/ATG medialab || Instruments on Solar Orbiter. Credit: ESA/ATG medialab || Solar Orbiter factsheet. Credit: ESA/ATG medialab || Solar Orbiter factsheet. Credit: ESA/ATG medialab || Credit: ESA/ATG medialab || Solar Orbiter with an alpha channel.Credit: ESA/ATG medialab || Solar Orbiter with an alpha channel.Credit: ESA/ATG medialab || Solar Orbiter with an alpha channel.Credit: ESA/ATG medialab || Solar Orbiter with an alpha channel.Credit: ESA/ATG medialab || Solar Orbiter with an alpha channel.Credit: ESA/ATG medialab || Solar Orbiter with an alpha channel.Credit: ESA/ATG medialab || Solar Orbiter with an alpha channel.Credit: ESA/ATG medialab || Solar Orbiter with an alpha channel.Credit: ESA/ATG medialab || Solar Orbiter with an alpha channel.Credit: ESA/ATG medialab || Solar Orbiter with an alpha channel.Credit: ESA/ATG medialab || Solar Orbiter with an alpha channel.Credit: ESA/ATG medialab
The Countdown is on for Launch of NASA’s Next Mission to Face the Sun Live Shots
Jan. 31, 2020, 11 a.m.
Read moreB-roll and canned interviews will be added by Thursday at 4:00 p.m. ESTSolar Orbiter Will Give Humanity Its First Close-Up Look At The Sun’s Poles || NASA’s Next Great Adventure to the Sun Launches Next Week New Mission Will Broaden Understanding of Sun and Future Space ExplorationNext week, NASA will launch a daring new mission to the Sun that will give us the most comprehensive view yet of our star. Solar Orbiter is a joint European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA mission that will provide high-resolution views of the never-before-seen poles of the Sun. The mission will help answer some of our most burning questions about the Sun, with implications for how to best protect our technology and astronauts going to the Moon and beyond.On Friday, Feb. 7 from 6:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. EST, NASA and ESA scientists are available LIVE from Kennedy Space Center to give your viewers a look into this exciting mission as it prepares to face the Sun. Find out how understanding the Sun better will ultimately help NASA send the first woman and next man forward to the Moon with the Artemis program. * Solar Orbiter is set to launch on Sunday, Feb. 9 at 11:03 p.m. EST.* We ve studied the Sun for decades, but there is still more to learn about the center of our solar system. Solar Orbiter’s images of the poles will fill in the gaps in our measurements of the Sun’s magnetic field, which drives solar activity like flares and coronal mass ejections.The Sun is an active star, so it releases bursts of material and energy that can affect our astronauts and technology in space and even here on Earth — conditions collectively called space weather. SUGGESTED ANCHOR INTRO: A MISSION TO UNDERSTAND OUR CLOSEST STAR… THE SUN. THIS WEEKEND, NASA AND THE EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY WILL LAUNCH A NEW MISSION TO THE SUN THAT WILL GIVE US HIGH RESOLUTION PHOTOS OF AREAS WE’VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE. HELPING US UNDERSTAND HOW THE SUN AFFECTS OUR LIVES HERE ON EARTH AND BEYOND...JOINING US NOW WE HAVE… LIVE FROM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER Schedule an InterviewTo schedule an interview, please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/g7znF7bz48CtmdNq7Scientists names will be updated next week. There will be a Spanish-speaking scientist available in addition to EnglishSatellite Coordinates** Interview Location: NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, FL HD Satellite Coordinates for G17-K20/Upper: Galaxy 17 Ku-band Xp 20 Slot Upper| 91.0 ° W Longitude | DL 12109.0 MHz | Vertical Polarity | QPSK/DVB-S | FEC 3/4 | SR 13.235 Mbps | DR 18.2954 MHz | HD 720p | Format MPEG2 | Chroma Level 4:2:0 | Audio Embedded Suggested Questions1. NASA is launching a new mission to the Sun THIS WEEKEND! What is this mission going to be doing? 2. The mission will give us a look at the north and south poles for the very first time by flying in a very unusual orbit around the Sun. How difficult is it to get into this unique orbit? 3. The Sun has seasons, and we are currently in a season of low activity. How will this mission help us better understand these cycles? (Scientist will talk on solar weather and how it affects us) 4. Sunglasses won’t cut it for NASA’s next generation of astronauts. How will better understanding the Sun help astronauts go to the Moon and beyond with the Artemis mission? 5. Where can we learn more about the Solar Orbiter mission and get launch updates? || B-roll Package || Canned interview with Dr. Alex Young looking straight into the camera. || Canned interview with Dr. Alex Young looking off camera
The Dynamic Solar Magnetic Field with Introduction
April 30, 2018, 6 a.m.
Read moreThis narrated visualization transitions from a view of the Sun in visible light, to a view in ultraviolet light showing the plasma flowing along solar magnetic structures, to the underlying magnetic field of the solar photosphere, to a model construction of magnetic fieldlines above the photosphere.This video is also available on our YouTube channel. || While the sun is well known as the overwhelming source of visible light in our solar system, a substantial part of its influence is driven by some aspects less visible to human perception - the magnetic field.In this visualization we start a view of the Sun in visible light (similiar to what you would see from the ground on Earth), to a view in extreme ultraviolet wavelengths (only visible to space-based instruments) which shows hot plasma streaming along magnetic field lines, to a magnetogram (derived from the visible light data) and finally to a three-dimensional magnetic field model built from that data. The sphere represents the solar photosphere, with neutral grey indicating a magnetic field of near zero intensity, black representing a magnetic field pointing INTO the sun (south or negative polarity) and white representing a magnetic field pointing OUT of the sun (north or positive polarity). We see that these magnetic regions often appear in nearby pairs of opposite polarities - which in visible light would often correspond to a pair of sunspots.Most of the solar photosphere has a magnetic field intensity of a few gauss while the active regions which form around sunspots can have magnetic fields of a few thousand gauss. Modern space-based instruments such as HMI (Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager) on the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) enable us to measure the intensity of the magnetic field at the visible surface of the sun.Using this measured magnetic field on the photosphere, combined with mathematical models based on Maxwell is created at the seam where the less accurate model gets overwritten by newer data. || This visualization transitions from a view of the Sun in visible light, to a view in ultraviolet light showing the plasma flowing along solar magnetic structures, to the underlying magnetic field of the solar photosphere, to a model construction of magnetic fieldlines above the photosphere.Coming soon to our YouTube channel. || A view of the Sun in visible light, showing a few sunspots. || A view of the Sun in ultraviolet light at a wavelength of 171 ngstroms. || A photospheric magnetogram, showing regions of strong magnetic fields. || The PFSS magnetic field model, one of the possible configurations for the magnetic field near the Sun based on the photospheric magnetogram.
Solar Orbiter's Orbit
Jan. 27, 2020, 11 a.m.
Read moreAnimationCredit: ESA/ATG medialab || An animation showing the trajectory of Solar Orbiter around the Sun, highlighting the gravity assist manoeuvres that will enable the spacecraft to change inclination to observe the Sun from different perspectives.During the initial cruise phase, which lasts until November 2021, Solar Orbiter will perform two gravity-assist manoeuvres around Venus and one around Earth to alter the spacecraft’s trajectory, guiding it towards the innermost regions of the Solar System. At the same time, Solar Orbiter will acquire in situ data and characterise and calibrate its remote-sensing instruments. The first close solar pass will take place in 2022 at around a third of Earth’s distance from the Sun.The spacecraft’s orbit has been chosen to be ‘in resonance’ with Venus, which means that it will return to the planet’s vicinity every few orbits and can again use the planet’s gravity to alter or tilt its orbit. Initially Solar Orbiter will be confined to the same plane as the planets, but each encounter of Venus will increase its orbital inclination. For example, after the 2025 Venus encounter it will make its first solar pass at 17º inclination, increasing to 33º during a proposed mission extension phase, bringing even more of the polar regions into direct view.
Solar Orbiter - NASA Animations
Jan. 27, 2020, 9 a.m.
Read moreA conceptual animation of the Sun with no magnetic field lines. || Solar Orbiter is an international cooperative mission between the European Space Agency and NASA that addresses a central question of heliophysics: How does the Sun create and control the constantly changing space environment throughout the solar system? The Sun creates what’s known as the heliosphere — a giant bubble of charged particles and magnetic fields blown outward by the Sun that stretches more than twice the distance to Pluto at its nearest edge, enveloping every planet in our solar system and shaping the space around us. To understand it, Solar Orbiter will travel as close as 26 million miles from the Sun, inside the orbit of Mercury. There, it will measure the magnetic fields, waves, energetic particles and plasma escaping the Sun while they are in their pristine state, before being modified and mixed in their long journey from the Sun. || A conceptual animation of the Sun with magnetic field lines. || Solar Orbiter orbiting the Sun. No field lines. || Solar Orbiter orbiting the Sun. With field lines. || Solar Orbiter orbiting the Sun. No field lines. || Solar Orbiter orbiting the Sun. With field lines.
Solar Orbiter - ESA Animations
Dec. 11, 2019, 10 a.m.
Read moreSpacecraft separation - GIF Visualization of the separation of Solar Orbiter from the Atlas V upper stage about 53 minutes after launch. Credit: ESA/ATG medialab || Solar Orbiter is an European Space Agency (ESA) mission with strong NASA participation. Its mission is to perform unprecedented close-up observations of the Sun and from high-latitudes, providing the first images of the uncharted polar regions of the Sun, and investigating the Sun-Earth connection. || Spacecraft separation - Video Visualization of the separation of Solar Orbiter from the Atlas V upper stage about 53 minutes after launch. Credit: ESA/ATG medialab || Thrusters Solar Array Deployment - Video Visualization showing the thrusters adjust the attitude of the spacecraft before the solar arrays are deployed. The deployment happens in two stages: the first part takes place about five minutes after separation and is spring-driven, unfolding the solar arrays to about 40% within four minutes. The second part is motorised, and will fully extend the solar arrays. This part takes about ten minutes. The solar arrays will be fully deployed by about 40 minutes after spacecraft separation. Credit: ESA/ATG medialab || Boom / antenna deployments - GIFVisualization showing the deployment of various boom/antennas. In the beginning, the first Radio and Plasma Waves (RPW) antenna is deployed. Then the boom hosting a suite of scientific instruments is deployed (MAG, RPW, and SWA to measure the magnetic and electric fields, and solar wind around the spacecraft). Subsequently, the remaining two RPW antennas are deployed. Finally, the high gain antenna dish is unfurled. In reality this sequence is spaced out over a 24 hour period. Credit: ESA/ATG medialab || Boom / antenna deployments - VideoVisualization showing the deployment of various boom/antennas. In the beginning, the first Radio and Plasma Waves (RPW) antenna is deployed. Then the boom hosting a suite of scientific instruments is deployed (MAG, RPW, and SWA to measure the magnetic and electric fields, and solar wind around the spacecraft). Subsequently, the remaining two RPW antennas are deployed. Finally, the high gain antenna dish is unfurled. In reality this sequence is spaced out over a 24 hour period. Credit: ESA/ATG medialab || Venus Flyby - GIFVisualization of a Venus gravity flyby. Solar Orbiter will make numerous gravity assist flybys of Venus (and one of Earth) over the course of its mission to adjust its orbit, bringing it closer to the Sun and also out of the plane of the Solar System to observe the Sun from progressively higher inclinations. This will result in the spacecraft being able to take the first ever images of the Sun’s polar regions, crucial for understanding how the Sun ‘works’. Credit: ESA/ATG medialab || Venus Flyby - VideoVisualization of a Venus gravity flyby. Solar Orbiter will make numerous gravity assist flybys of Venus (and one of Earth) over the course of its mission to adjust its orbit, bringing it closer to the Sun and also out of the plane of the Solar System to observe the Sun from progressively higher inclinations. This will result in the spacecraft being able to take the first ever images of the Sun’s polar regions, crucial for understanding how the Sun ‘works’. Credit: ESA/ATG medialab || Facing the Sun Part 1 - GIFThis visualization begins by showing small sliding doors in the heatshield open to allow the internally-mounted remote-sensing instruments to observe the Sun. Special windows block out heat to protect the instruments during operations. The doors are closed when the instruments are not observing. Credit: ESA/ATG medialab || Facing the Sun Part 1 - VideoThis visualization begins by showing small sliding doors in the heatshield open to allow the internally-mounted remote-sensing instruments to observe the Sun. Special windows block out heat to protect the instruments during operations. The doors are closed when the instruments are not observing. Credit: ESA/ATG medialab || Facing the Sun Part 2 - GIFDuring its closest approaches of the Sun, Solar Orbiter will be travelling fast enough to study how magnetically active regions evolve for up to four weeks at a time. Credit: ESA/ATG medialab || Facing the Sun Part 2- VideoDuring its closest approaches of the Sun, Solar Orbiter will be travelling fast enough to study how magnetically active regions evolve for up to four weeks at a time. Credit: ESA/ATG medialab || A time-lapse of Solar Orbiter in a clean room. Credit: ESA/ATG medialab || Visualization of the launch of Solar Orbiter on an Atlas V 411. Credit: ESA/ATG medialab || Visualization of the Atlas V 411 fairing separation revealing Solar Orbiter attached to the rocket upper stage.Credit: ESA/ATG medialab || Visualization of Solar Orbiter making an Earth flyby. The spacecraft will make one Earth flyby during the early stages of its mission, in November 2021. It will make numerous flybys of Venus to adjust its orbit, bringing it closer to the Sun and also out of the plane of the Solar System to observe the Sun from progressively higher inclinations. This will result in the spacecraft being able to take the first ever images of the Sun’s polar regions, crucial for understanding how the Sun ‘works’. Credit: ESA/ATG medialab
Parker Science Result animations
Dec. 4, 2019, 8 a.m.
Read moreThe dynamic solar wind Observed near Earth, the solar wind is a relatively uniform flow of plasma, with occasional turbulent tumbles. But by that point it’s traveled over ninety million miles — and the signatures of the Sun s approximate location is represented as a dot icon.Credit: NASA Goddard/CIL/Jonathan North
Parker Solar Probe Science Briefing - Visual Resources
July 20, 2018, 8:30 a.m.
Read moreTrailer without text introduction. Music credit: Luminous Skies [Underscore] by Andrew Prahlow from www.killertracks.comComplete transcript available.Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel. || July 20, 2018 - Live from NASA Kennedy - 1:00 p.m. ESTHosted by Karen Fox - Heliophysics Communications Lead, NASA Goddard/NASA HQSpeakers:Nicola Fox - Parker Solar Probe Project Scientist, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics LabAlex Young - Solar Scientist from NASA GoddardThomas Zurbuchen - Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at NASABetsy Congdon - Thermal Protection System Engineer at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab || Image of Parker Solar Probe. Credit: APL/NASA GSFC || Beauty pass animation of Parker Solar Probe in the solar wind. Credit: NASA GSFC/CIL/Brian Monroe || Animation of the solar wind. Credit: NASA GSFC/CIL/Krystofer Kim || Photo of Eugene Parker. Credit: University of Chicago || Animation of a coronal mass ejection (CME) from the Sun. Credit: NASA GSFC/CIL/Krystofer Kim || Animation of a spacecraft being damaged by space weather. Credit: NASA GSFC/CIL/Krystofer Kim || Graphic illustrating the layers of the Sun. Credit: NASA GSFC/Mary Pat Hrybyk-Keith || Animation of Parker Solar Probe during a Venus flyby. Credit: Johns Hopkins University/APL/Steve Gribben || Animation of Parker Solar Probe s systems. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Lee HobsonComplete transcript available.
Snapshots from the Edge of the Sun
Sept. 1, 2016, 8 a.m.
Read moreGIF of animated sun with corona and solar wind labels. || For the first time, using NASA’s Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory, or STEREO, scientists have imaged the edge of the sun and described that transition – from which the solar wind blows. Defining the details of this boundary helps us learn more about our solar neighborhood, which is bathed throughout by solar material – a space environment that we must understand to safely explore beyond our planet. A paper on the findings was published in The Astrophysical Journal on Sept. 1, 2016. || Narrated video about discovering the boundary between the corona - the sun s consistency, marking the transition from the corona to the solar wind.
SDO: Year 5
Feb. 11, 2015, 5 a.m.
Read moreHighlights from the Solar Dynamics Observatory s Goddard Space Flight Center/SDO
The Sun's Magnetic Field
Dec. 5, 2013, 1 p.m.
Read moreEvolution of the solar magnetic field from 1997 to 2013. Version with time-stamp written in the image file. || During the course of the approximately 11 year sunspot cycle, the magnetic field of the Sun reverses. The last time this happened was around the year 2000. Using magnetograms from the SOHO/MDI and SDO/HMI instruments, it is possible to examine possible configurations of the magnetic field above the photosphere. These magnetic configurations are important in understanding potential conditions of severe space weather.The magnetic field in this animation is constructed using the Potential Field Source Surface (PFSS) model. The PFSS model is one of the simplest yet realistic models we can explore. Using the solar magnetograms as the for the high-speed solar wind. || Frames of the magnetic field movie. Instead of sequential frame numbers, the file name is tagged by year, month, and day: YYYYMMDD.
Sun Magnetic Field Flip Live Shots and Media Resources
Dec. 5, 2013, noon
Read more|| On Dec. 6, 2013, NASA scientists Alex Young and Holly Gilbert discussed how the sun s poles. || Image shows the magnetic fields of the sun have flipped from the previous image. The blue lines are now at top of the sun and red at the bottom.
Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) Blast Their Way Through the Solar System
Oct. 18, 2011, 8 a.m.
Read moreAnimation with no labels. || A coronal mass ejection erupts from the Sun and propagates out through the Solar System. Along the way it is detected by the spacecraft at Jupiter and Saturn. Eventually it is detected by the two Voyager spacecraft beyond the orbit of Pluto. This animation is based on CMEs produced during the Halloween storms of 2003. It is an update to a previous animation. || Animation with Labels. || Labels with Alpha Channel.