SH021
Preparing for Solar Orbiter: Linking the Sun to the Heliosphere
Preparing for Solar Orbiter: Linking the Sun to the Heliosphere
Session ID#: 79403
Session Description:
ESA/NASA's next heliophysics mission Solar Orbiter has completed its environmental test campaign and is getting ready to be launched in February 2020. The mission’s unique design will enable breakthrough science focusing on the linkage between the Sun and the heliosphere. By approaching as close as 0.28 AU from the Sun and orbiting the Sun in a plane up to 33 degrees from the ecliptic, Solar Orbiter will view the Sun and corona with remote imaging with high spatial resolution and with in-situ measurements of the surrounding heliosphere. Thanks to this unique orbit, Solar Orbiter will deliver images and data of the unexplored Sun's and inner heliospheric polar regions and the side of the Sun not visible from Earth. This session focuses on the capabilities of the mission, the performance of its instruments, coordinated observations with other missions, and theoretical developments to understand how the Sun creates and controls the heliosphere.
Index Terms:
7594 Instruments and techniques [SOLAR PHYSICS, ASTROPHYSICS, AND ASTRONOMY]
7599 General or miscellaneous [SOLAR PHYSICS, ASTROPHYSICS, AND ASTRONOMY]
7894 Instruments and techniques [SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS]
7899 General or miscellaneous [SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS]
Primary Convener: Yannis Zouganelis, European Space Agency, ESAC, Villanueva De La Can, Spain
Conveners: Russell Howard, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, Christopher John Owen, University College London, Mullard Space Science Laboratory, London, United Kingdom and Robert F Wimmer-Schweingruber, University of Kiel, Institute for Experimental and Applied Physics, Kiel, Germany
Primary Liaison: Yannis Zouganelis, European Space Agency, ESAC, Villanueva De La Can, Spain
See more of: SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics