Aims. Solar Orbiter, the first mission of ESA's Cosmic Vision 2015–2025 programme and a
mission of international collaboration between ESA and NASA, will explore the Sun and …

Aims. The Spectrometer Telescope for Imaging X-rays (STIX) on Solar Orbiter is a hard X-ray
imaging spectrometer, which covers the energy range from 4 to 150 keV. STIX observes …

After decades of observations of solar energetic particles from space-based observatories,
relevant questions on particle injection, transport, and acceleration remain open. To address …

Context. The Solar Orbiter spacecraft will be equipped with a wide range of remote-sensing
(RS) and in situ (IS) instruments to record novel and unprecedented measurements of the …

Context. The Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) is part of the remote sensing instrument
package of the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter mission that will explore the inner heliosphere and …

Aims. The Spectral Imaging of the Coronal Environment (SPICE) instrument is a high-
resolution imaging spectrometer operating at extreme ultraviolet wavelengths. In this paper …

The Solar Orbiter mission seeks to make connections between the physical processes
occurring at the Sun or in the solar corona and the nature of the solar wind created by those …

Aims. This paper describes the Polarimetric and Helioseismic Imager on the Solar Orbiter
mission (SO/PHI), the first magnetograph and helioseismology instrument to observe the …

The main scientific goal of Solar Orbiter is to address the central question of
heliophysics:'how does the Sun create and control the heliosphere?'To achieve this goal …

Aims. Metis is the first solar coronagraph designed for a space mission and is capable of
performing simultaneous imaging of the off-limb solar corona in both visible and UV light …