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The sun’s secret south pole has stepped into the light. For the first time, humanity has captured striking views of the sun’s mysterious polar region, thanks to the Solar Orbiter spacecraft.
Solar Orbiter Captures First Clear Views of Sun’s South Pole—and It’s a Hot Mess A recent Venus flyby pushed the spacecraft out of Earth's orbital plane, allowing it to gaze at the solar poles.
The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter captured the first-ever images of the sun's south pole in March, which were released this week.
The magnetic field drives the formation of sunspots, cooler regions on the solar surface that appear as dark blotches. At the ...
The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter, which launched in 2020 from Cape Canaveral, captured the first-ever images of the sun's south pole.
Solar Orbiter’s view of the magnetic fields around the sun’s south pole. Patches of blue and red mark the mixed magnetic fields in this region that characterize solar maximum.
The south pole of the sun, photographed by the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager instrument aboard Solar Orbiter on 30 March 2022. Credit: ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/EUI Team ...
The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter captured the sun from an angle of 17 degrees below the solar equator, enough to directly see the sun’s south pole.
Solar Orbiter makes first ever observations of Sun’s south pole, reveals messy magnetic field written by Haygen Warren June 15, 2025 ...
Solar Orbiter’s view of the magnetic fields around the sun’s south pole. Patches of blue and red mark the mixed magnetic fields in this region that characterize solar maximum.