ESA’s Solar Orbiter and NASA’s Parker Solar Probe are space weather sidekicks - on two separate, but complementary missions to study the sun with the aim of being able to better predict when solar wind might pose risks to our communications satellites, electrical grid and even astronauts.
Equipped with a camera, Solar Orbiter will capture our first images of the sun’s poles. Additionally, when in the same stage of their orbit, Parker and Solar Orbiter will capture data from the same weather patterns, offering a more complete picture of the sun’s behavior. We explain how Solar Orbiter and Parker Solar Probe work together - and how engineers from U-M Engineering are helping lead the discovery in both missions
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