A solar probe built by NASA and the European Space Agency delivers the closest photos ever taken of the Sun's surface revealing tiny explosions on the surface, called nanoflares.
A solar probe built by the European Space Agency and NASA has delivered the closest photos ever taken of the Sun's surface, revealing a landscape rife with thousands of tiny solar flares that scientists dubbed "campfires" and offering clues about the extreme heat of the outermost part of its atmosphere.
"These are only the first images and we can already see interesting new phenomena," said Daniel Muller, ESA's Solar Orbiter Project Scientist."We can also see how our ten scientific instruments complement each other, providing a holistic picture of the Sun and the surrounding environment," he said. The team had to create a new vocabulary to name the tiny flare-ups, Mr Muller said, describing them as quite possibly "the tiny cousins of the solar flares that we already know."
"The Sun might look quiet at the first glance, but when we look in detail, we can see those miniature flares everywhere.""That combination really allows us to make links and connections to what's happening on the Sun and what's happening at the spacecraft," said Holly Gilbert, Solar Orbiter project scientist at NASA.
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