METIS - SOLAR ORBITER - DA DEPPO - ASI-INAF 2018-30-HH.0 (DFM.AD005.243)
Thematic area
Physical sciences and technologies of matter
Project area
Fotonica: dai processi fisici ai componenti e sistemi e relative applicazioni (DFM.AD005)Structure responsible for the research project
Institute for photonics and nanotechnologies (IFN)
Project manager
VANIA DADEPPO
Phone number: 049-9815639
Email: vania.dadeppo@pd.ifn.cnr.it
Abstract
The Metis instrument is a coronagraph mounted onboard of the European Space Agency Solar Orbiter mission to be launched in 2020.
The selected mission profile will bring the Solar Orbiter spacecraft as close to the Sun as 0.3 A.U., and up to 35°out-of-ecliptic providing a unique platform for helio-synchronous observations of the Sun and its polar regions.
Metis can simultaneously image the visible and ultraviolet emissions of the solar corona and diagnose, with unprecedented temporal coverage and spatial resolution, the structures and dynamics of the full corona in the field-of-view (FOV) range from 1.5° to 2.9°.
Start date of activity
19/11/2018
Keywords
space science, solar physics, coronagraphy
Last update: 25/08/2025