The Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research is a research institute in astronomy and astrophysics located in Göttingen, Germany, where it relocated in February 2014 from the nearby village of L
New Institute building in Göttingen, built in 2013 and occupied in 2014
Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research – April 2006
Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Lindau, about a year before relocating – March 2013
Prof. Ulrich Christensen (left), Prof. Dr. Laurent Gizon (centre) and Prof. Dr. Sami K. Solanki (right)
Solar Orbiter
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The Solar Orbiter is a Sun-observing probe developed by the European Space Agency with a NASA contribution. Solar Orbiter, designed to obtain detailed measurements of the inner heliosphere and the nas
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…on the Sun's surface as small as 100 kilometers. Future projects will stress research into the physical causes of the Sun's variations. The ambitious Solar Orbiter Mission, based on a suggestion from the institute, will see a probe approach our star to within a fifth of the Earth-Sun distance in order to investigate…
Artist's impression of the Solar Orbiter orbiting the Sun
The Solar Orbiter structural thermal model shortly before leaving the Airbus Defence and Space facility in Stevenage, UK
Solar Orbiter spacecraft is prepared for encapsulation in the United Launch Alliance Atlas V payload fairing.
The flight model of the Electrostatic Analyser System (EAS), which is part of the Solar Wind Analyser (SWA) Suite