Any image we have ever seen of the Sun was taken from around the Sun’s equator. This is because Earth, the other planets, and all other operational spacecraft orbit the Sun within a flat disk around the Sun called the ecliptic plane. By tilting its orbit out of this plane, the ESA/ESA Solar Orbiter spacecraft […]
Any image we have ever seen of the Sun was taken from around the Sun’s equator. This is because Earth, the other planets, and all other operational spacecraft orbit the Sun within a flat disk around the Sun called the ecliptic plane. By tilting its orbit out of this plane, the ESA/ESA Solar Orbiter spacecraft […]