The Solar Orbiter in front of the Sun.
{"Image ImageDescription": "EMBARGOED TO 1315 THURSDAY JULY 16 Undated handout file artist impression of The Solar Orbiter in front of the Sun. The spacecraft, a European Space Agency probe designed and built in the UK, captured the closest ever images taken of the Sun during a close pass between the orbits of Venus and Mercury, and have revealed miniature solar flares, which have been dubbed \"campfires\", dotted across its surface.. Issue date: Thursday July 16, 2020. The UK-built Solar Orbiter spacecraft was launched in February from Cape Canaveral in Florida, USA, and will provide images of the Sun from inside the orbit of its nearest planet, Mercury. The UK played a key role in development of the Solar Orbiter mission providing funding for four of the 10 scientific instruments on board, and researchers from Imperial College London and the UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory (UCL MSSL) lead the teams behind Solar Orbiter's Magnetometer (MAG) and Solar Wind Analyser (SWA) respectively. See PA story SCIENCE Solar. Photo credit should read: ESA/ATG medialab/Nasa NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.", "Image XResolution": "1501/10", "Image YResolution": "1501/10", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Artist": "ESA/ATG medialab/Nasa"}