Key photonic imaging techniques help ESA’s Solar Orbiter capture first pictures of the Sun’s poles | Electro Optics

Key photonic imaging techniques help ESA’s Solar Orbiter capture first pictures of the Sun’s poles

Solar Orbiter's view of the Sun

Solar Orbiter’s newly angled perspective of the Sun (Image: ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/EUI Team, D. Berghmans (ROB) & ESA/Royal Observatory of Belgium)

The ESA’s Solar Orbiter uses its polarimetric and helioseismic, extreme ultraviolet and spectral imaging instruments to unlock mysteries surrounding the Sun’s magnetism

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