This graphic summarizes the first images and data gathered by the SoloHi and Metis instruments on ESA/NASA's Solar Orbiter.
This graphic summarizes the first images and data gathered by the SoloHi and Metis instruments on ESA/NASA’s Solar Orbiter as the mission completed its commissioning phase. These include some of the instrument first light images, obtained between May and June 2020.
The Heliospheric Imager (SoloHI) instrument images disturbances in the solar wind allowing giant eruptions known as coronal mass ejections to be tracked as they erupt from the Sun. The Metis coronagraph blocks the light from the solar surface, so that the fainter outer atmosphere of the Sun, the corona, can be seen.
Credit: Solar Orbiter/ESA/NASA