A cosmic alignment and a little bit of spacecraft gymnastics have provided a ground-breaking measurement that is helping solve the 65-year-old cosmic mystery of why the Sun’s atmosphere is so hot. The Sun’s atmosphere is called the corona. It consists of an electrically charged gas known as plasm
. Solar Orbiter is designed to get as close to the Sun as it can and still perform remote sensing operations, along with in-situ measurements. Parker Solar Probe largely forgoes remote sensing of the Sun itself to get even closer for its in-situ measurements.
He found that on 1 June 2022, the two spacecraft would be in the correct orbital configuration – almost. Essentially, Solar Orbiter would be looking at the Sun and Parker Solar Probe would be just off to the side, tantalizingly close but just out of the field of view of the Metis instrument. ESA’s Solar Orbiter mission will face the Sun from within the orbit of Mercury at its closest approach. Credit: ESA/ATG medialabThe roll and the offset pointing went ahead; Parker Solar Probe came into the field of view, and together the spacecraft produced the first-ever simultaneous measurements of the large-scale configuration of the solar corona and the microphysical properties of the plasma.
By comparing the newly measured rate to the theoretical predictions that have been made by solar physicists over the years, Daniele has shown that solar physicists were almost certainly right in their identification of turbulence as a way of transferring energy.
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