ESA Releases Solar Orbiter’s First Science Data0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 2, 2020
ESA’s Solar Orbiter spacecraft, in collaboration with NASA, launched in February 2020 on its mission to study to Sun and it began collecting science data in June. Now, three of its ten instruments — the Energetic Particle Detector (EPD), the Radio and Plasma Waves (RPW) instrument, and the Magnetometer (MAG) — have released their first science data, revealing the state of our star in a ‘quiet’ phase.
