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**Solar Orbiter** reveals the Sun's many faces
20 November 2024
A map of movement on the Sun's surface, measured by Solar Orbiter's PHI instrument. Image credits: ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/PHI Team
A magnetic map of the Sun, measured by Solar Orbiter's PHI instrument. Image credits: ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/PHI Team
A map of movement on the Sun's surface, measured by Solar Orbiter's PHI instrument. Credit: ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/PHI Team
The Sun in visible light, as seen by Solar Orbiter's PHI instrument. Image credits: ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/PHI Team

Watching the Sun in visible light, Solar Orbiter reveals a grainy surface and dark sunspots. On the same day, the spacecraft mapped the Sun's magnetic field, tracked how fast and in which direction scorching hot material on the surface is moving, and snapped a hypnotising image in ultraviolet light of the Sun’s upper atmosphere, the corona. All taken on the same day, the four new images shown in this video let us peel away the Sun's many layers. 

Solar Orbiter's highest-resolution full views of the Sun. Video credits: ESA.

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