Solar Orbiter and Parker Solar Probe

ESA’s Solar Orbiter (left) is one of two spacecraft studying the Sun at close proximity, the other being NASA’s Parker Solar Probe (right).

Note the graphic is an artistic impression only; it is not to scale and does not depict a realistic configuration of the two missions. Read more about how the missions complement each other here here.

Note: This graphic was updated in April 2025 to show an image of the Sun taken by Solar Orbiter's EUI instrument.