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The images, obtained in March 2023 by the ESA's Solar Orbiter, represent what the agency says are the highest-resolution views of the sun's surface, known as the photosphere, to date.
A non-Sun-synchronous orbit (magenta) is also shown for reference. Dates are shown in white: day/month. A Sun-synchronous orbit (SSO), also called a heliosynchronous orbit, [1] is a nearly polar orbit around a planet, in which the satellite passes over any given point of the planet's surface at the same local mean solar time.
Prograde satellites of Uranus orbit in the direction Uranus rotates, which is retrograde to the Sun. Nearly all regular satellites are tidally locked and thus have prograde rotation. Retrograde satellites are generally small and distant from their planets, except Neptune's satellite Triton, which is large and close. All retrograde satellites ...
File: The Sun by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly of NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory - 20100819.jpg
The Solar orbiter just produced the closest pictures ever taken of the Sun, revealing our parent star in stunning detail. This joint mission from NASA and the ESA launched on February 9 of this ...
The sun is approaching solar maximum and it's ... downed satellites, and stunning aurora. Jessica Orwig. Updated August 21, 2024 at 2:57 PM. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory images a solar flare ...
A satellite with an orbital inclination between zero and ninety degrees is said to be in what is called a direct or prograde orbit, meaning that it orbits in the same direction as the planet's rotation. A satellite with an orbital inclination between 90° and 180° (or, equivalently, between 0° and −90°) is said to be in a retrograde orbit.
Here are six satellite images of some of the globe's most famous natural features. Some 5,000 satellites currently orbit Earth, beaming back data about our little blue planet from the vantage ...