Sun’s South Pole Revealed: ESA’s Historic Visuals Captured |
Below is an in-depth theoretical exploration—grounded in the latest findings—of ESA/NASA’s Solar Orbiter revealing the Sun’s south pole. Before these images, the Sun’s poles existed only in models—an unseen frontier. Most observations are confined to the ecliptic plane, but Solar Orbiter used gravity assists from Venus to incline its orbit approximately 17° south of the…

