The first data from the Solar Orbiter may reveal “a whole extra set ofwonders” that no-one is yet aware of, an expert has said.
The European SpaceAgency (ESA) has released the first round of information from the probe to thescientific community and the wider public.
The instruments contributing tothis data release come from the suite of in-situ instruments that measure theconditions surrounding the spacecraft.
These instruments are the EnergeticParticle Detector (EPD), the Radio and Plasma Waves (RPW) instrument, and theMagnetometer (MAG).
Based on the successful approach taken by previous solarphysics missions, it was decided that the time between the data being receivedon Earth and it being released to the world would be at most 90 days.