The video shows strands of energized particles leaving the star's lower atmosphere in the form of 'coronal rain,' with small eruptions of plasma dotting a fuzzy, 'coronal moss' surface - a hellish perspective that required the daring orbiter to swoop by at an extremely close distance.
The Solar Orbiter's Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) captured the Sun's surface from a distance of roughly a third of the distance between the Earth and the Sun, allowing the measurement of solar winds for comparison with NASA's Parker Solar Probe.
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