![]() This project is made possible with support from Fonds 21 and Performing Arts Fund NL. ![]() Questions that are important for all mankind, after all, we are all ‘children of the Sun’. In the coming years, scientists hope to use the data that Solar Orbiter collects to answer some profound questions about the behavior of the sun. Never before have people been able to take pictures so close and also study the polar regions of the sun. Solar Orbiter, a mission of the European Space Agency in collaboration with NASA, was launched in February 2020 and is now in orbit around the sun. I am inspired by, among other things, the Myth of Phaëton”, Corrie explains. ![]() “My perspective is a combination of science and mythology. Tijn: “I’m fascinated by scientific insights about aurora and sonification and I’m going to incorporate that into my music.” Corrie van Binsbergen has also delved into the research of the Solar Orbiter mission. Using the most beautiful music inspired by the sun and fascinating images from the Solar Orbiter spacecraft, ESA scientist Mark McCaughrean takes you on a space mission.Ĭomposers Tijn Wybenga and Corrie van Binsbergen are invited to write new music for this concert series. Metropole Orkest and the European Space Agency (ESA) are joining forces to pay tribute to this extraordinary celestial body. So while the sun has been a source of inspiration since the dawn of human civilization, we must do our best to better understand the giant. ![]() But the giant could also endanger our modern technological society with powerful solar flares. A giant that provides light, warmth and nourishment to life on the earth, in the oceans and in the air. Powerful flares, breathtaking views across the solar poles, and a curious solar ‘hedgehog’ are amongst the haul of spectacular images, movies and data returned by Solar Orbiter from its first close approach to the Sun. On this day, all 10 instruments of the spacecraft will work simultaneously to collect as much data as possible.There is a beautiful and terrifying giant that lives in space, 150 million kilometers from Earth. The probe will take photos of the sun from a closer distance - 48 million km. Solar Orbiter expected to set a record on March 26. Photo: ESA & NASA / Solar Orbiter / SPICE team Data processing: G. Pelouze (IAS) Temperature of individual gases of the Sun. Kraikamp (ROB) The temperature of the Sun. Photo: ESA & NASA / Solar Orbiter / EUI team Data processing: E. For comparison, this image has a resolution 10 times better than the screen of a 4K TV can display,” – the ESA noted. In total, the final image contains more than 83 million pixels with a resolution of 9148×9112. The full image, taken one by one, was obtained in more than 4 hours because each part takes about 10 minutes, including the time it takes the spacecraft to move from one segment to another. “ The EUI high-resolution Telescope captures images with such high spatial resolution that at such a close distance, it takes a mosaic of 25 separate images to cover the entire sun. One of the images taken using the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) instrument and is a full disk of The Sun and the outer atmosphere (Corona) with the highest resolution ever taken.Īnother photo taken using the Spectral Imaging of the Coronal Environment (SPICE) instrument and is the first of its kind full image of the sun in 50 years and the best obtained at the Lyman-beta wavelength of ultraviolet light emitted by hydrogen gas. The photos taken on March 7, when the spacecraft was at an equal distance from both Earth and our star - 75 million km from both. A probe from the European Space Agency (ESA) and the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) called Solar Orbiter (launched in 2020) took unique images of the sun from the nearest distance.
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