#weareallsolarorbiters

Season's greetings to all our followers - enjoy our Christmas 'star' #CometLeonard! #WeAreAllSolarOrbiters https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Solar_Orbiter/A_Christmas_comet_for_Solar_Orbiter …pic.twitter.com/IWWVKrWxgl

(Almost) ready for launch! #WeAreAllSolarOrbiters pic.twitter.com/UbGEMYilCP

Another long exposure shot of the launch of Atlas V and Solar Orbiter at 11:03pm Sunday evening. #WeAreAllSolarOrbiters pic.twitter.com/HArbnA0T6T

It was a truly beautiful scene from Cocoa Beach as the mighty #AtlasV rocket carried the #SolarOrbiter aloft, seen here in a 180-sec exposure. Truly, #WeAreAllSolarOrbiters. And, bonus photobomb by the nearly Full Moon. (Pic: me / @WeReportSpace)pic.twitter.com/7ErX5gVIXT

Our #Estrack station in Australia has picked up the signal from #SolarOrbiter! #AquisitionOfSignal #LoudAndClear The spacecraft has safely performed its only #Earthflyby, passing through our human-made debris-filled environment. #WeAreAllSolarOrbiters pic.twitter.com/Ll9via4GD0

#SolarOrbiter facts & figures: Launch mass: 1800 kg Dimensions (folded): 2,6m x 3,1m x 2,4m. Mission duration: 7 years (+3) Cruise Phase: 1,8 years -180°C to 500°C 10 scientific instruments #Infographic #WeAreAllSolarOrbiters pic.twitter.com/s9i6MiWejI

#OTD 19 February 1473, astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus born, formulated 'heliocentric model' of solar system placing #Sun rather than #Earth at centre, published as De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres) #WeAreAllSolarOrbiters pic.twitter.com/E1eFH1maEm

Beautiful first images from #SolarOrbiterPHI. Read more here: http://www.mps.mpg.de/solar-orbiter-s-first-images-of-the-sun … #ESASolarOrbiter #TheSunUpClose #WeAreAllSolarOrbiters pic.twitter.com/diJtF34mVQ

LAUNCH HIGHLIGHTS! On Feb. 9 at 11:03 p.m. EST, an #AtlasV 411 lifted @ESASolarOrbiter on its journey to study the sun for @esa and @NASA #WeAreAllSolarOrbiters pic.twitter.com/nxGB724cDd

We are extremely happy to share that the first images from #SolarOrbiter confirm the instruments are working and SPICE provided the first spectra taken that close to the Sun. Here it is! #TheSunUpClose #WeAreAllSolarOrbiters @ESASolarOrbiterpic.twitter.com/ZzqGkkBUG2

Here is a clip I took of the launch of @ESASolarOrbiter from Banana Creek at Kennedy Space Center. There are no words to describe this other than WOW #SolarOrbiter #WeAreAllSolarOrbiters pic.twitter.com/yjUAC4ip7l

Images from this morning's @ESASolarOrbiter launch from @NASAKennedy - find more in this album: https://flic.kr/s/aHsmLiFkVx  #WeAreAllSolarOrbiters Credit: ESA-S.Corvaja pic.twitter.com/fiyos1cL61

What's it like seeing a project you have been working on for years launch into space? Watch #WeAreAllSolarOrbiters pic.twitter.com/GQSTPAStcs

The women in the #SolarOrbiter Project Support Team! Engineers at @ESA and @Airbus. Proud to be part of this amazing mission. #WomenInScienceDay #WomenInSTEM #WeAreAllSolarOrbiters pic.twitter.com/5cGLSDHV5g

Liftoff for @ESASolarOrbiter ESA's mission to face the Sun up close. Read more: http://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Solar_Orbiter/Liftoff_for_Solar_Orbiter_ESA_s_mission_to_face_the_Sun_up_close … #WeAreAllSolarOrbiters #SolarOrbiterpic.twitter.com/7QOGcNszKB

The @ulalaunch #AtlasV 411, carrying the @ESASolarOrbiter spacecraft, provides a beautiful perspective on the difference between liquid fuel and solid fuel rocket exhaust. #solarorbiter #weareallsolarorbiters @esa @NASA @NASAGoddard @NASA_LSP @NASAKennedy @torybruno pic.twitter.com/oOqoHK4Xvj

Today is @ESASolarOrbiter's first perihelion (i.e close pass of the Sun), the first of many as it gets even closer. It's about 77 million km from the Sun's surface, half the distance between Earth and the Sun https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Solar_Orbiter/Solar_Orbiter_makes_first_close_approach_to_the_Sun … #WeAreAllSolarOrbiters, just not as close pic.twitter.com/gEdWfZTr2G

Speaking of #CMEs, the first @ESASolarOrbiter movies showing #CMEs, or coronal mass ejections, including during the spacecraft's February perihelion pass, released today https://esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Solar_Orbiter/Solar_Orbiter_images_first_coronal_mass_ejections … #WeAreAllSolarOrbiters pic.twitter.com/JoQtsBCbu9

LIFTOFF of the United Launch Alliance #AtlasV rocket with #SolarOrbiter for an insight into the lifestyle of the sun! Photo by me! @NASA_LSP @ESASolarOrbiter #WeAreAllSolarOrbiters pic.twitter.com/4jF9k3HSjI