{"id":227,"date":"2024-05-02T21:01:21","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T21:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/sawberries\/2024\/05\/02\/esa-solar-orbiter\/"},"modified":"2024-05-02T21:01:21","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T21:01:21","slug":"esa-solar-orbiter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/sawberries\/2024\/05\/02\/esa-solar-orbiter\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Video Captures Mossy Corona in the Sun\u2019s Atmosphere in Extraordinary Detail"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IqdmM9dg0UY?rel=0\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A new video released by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">European Space Agency<\/a> (ESA) reveals the riotous activity of the sun\u2019s atmosphere in unprecedented detail. Taken by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Science_Exploration\/Space_Science\/Solar_Orbiter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Solar Orbiter<\/a> in September, the footage captures a lush blanket of \u201ccorona moss\u201d met by bright arches, or the magnetic field lines that shoot from the interior. Researchers say the brightest regions reach a whopping one million degrees Celsius\u2014the cooler spots appear darker because they absorb radiation\u2014and the \u201cfluffy\u201d hair-like structures are made of charged plasma.<\/p>\n<p>As the video illustrates, spires of gas, a.k.a. spicules, shoot up along the horizon and sometimes soar 10,000 kilometers high. High-density clumps of plasma known as cool coronal rain are gravitationally sucked back into the atmosphere. There\u2019s also a \u201csmall eruption\u201d that occurs in the center of the frame that\u2019s anything but small: the burst of light is larger than the earth.<\/p>\n<p>This mind-boggling shift in perspective is, of course, due to the distance of the spacecraft from the sun. Since the Solar Orbiter launched in February 2020, it has continuously flown nearer to the star than any other instrument before it, reaching up to 42 million kilometers away. On this September mission, the orbiter was about 43 million kilometers away, which is about a third of the earth\u2019s total distance from the sun.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-246508\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/esa-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1073\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/esa-2.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/esa-2-640x343.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/esa-2-960x515.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/esa-2-1536x824.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-246507\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/esa-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1071\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/esa-1.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/esa-1-640x343.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/esa-1-960x514.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/esa-1-1536x823.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\"><\/p>\n<p>Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/members\">Colossal Member<\/a> today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $5 per month. The article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2024\/05\/esa-solar-orbiter\/\">A New Video Captures Mossy Corona in the Sun\u2019s Atmosphere in Extraordinary Detail<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/\">Colossal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff A new video released by the European Space Agency (ESA) reveals the riotous activity of the sun\u2019s atmosphere in unprecedented detail. Taken by the Solar Orbiter in September, the footage captures a lush blanket of \u201ccorona moss\u201d met by bright arches, or the magnetic field lines that shoot from the interior. Researchers say the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,209,379,383,457,105],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/sawberries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/sawberries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/sawberries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/sawberries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/sawberries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/sawberries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/sawberries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/sawberries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/sawberries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}