NASA, ESA share most detailed image of the Sun ever recorded: Extreme Ultraviolet Imager captures new view
Five years into its mission, the European Space Agency (ESA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Solar Orbiter mission has delivered the most detailed image of the Sun ever recorded.
The sun-observing mission’s latest images detail the Sun’s million-degree hot atmosphere, called the corona, captured in ultraviolet light.
The image you see here, complete with hot plasma bounding around the solar orb’s magnetic field and coronal loops around its more active regions, is actually a composite of 200 separate individual images.
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By continuing you agree to our Terms and Privacy Policy.Those images were captured by the Solar Orbiter’s Extreme Ultraviolet Imager instrument from 77 million km away, with the mission orienting the Orbiter spacecraft to point at different regions across the Sun on March 9.
At each pointing direction, the EUI instrument would take six high-resolution images and two wide-angle views.
The end result?
The widest high-resolution view of the Sun yet.
