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The first images from Solar Orbiter, a new Sun-observing mission by ESA and NASA, have revealed omnipresent miniature solar flares, dubbed ‘campfires’, near the surface of our closest star.
The first images from ESA’s new Sun-observing spacecraft Solar Orbiter will be released to the public on 16 July 2020. Media representatives are invited to watch an online press briefing, which will take place at 14:00 CEST, and talk to the scientists behind the mission.
ESA’s Euclid mission, in which Romania also takes part, has reached another milestone on its journey towards launch. Its two instruments are now built and fully tested. These have been delivered to Airbus in Toulouse, France, where they are now being integrated with the telescope.
ESA’s industrial policy committee has approved contracts totalling €2.55 billion to forward the development of six new Copernicus satellite missions.
On 26 June 2020, the National Institute of Hydrology and Water Management issued a code red for the Prut river basin, more precisely the Stânca Costești reservoir sector (Botoșani county). According to measurements on Rădăuți Prut, the level has surpassed the Danger Level with 266cm. The flood was formed on the superior basin of Prut, in Ukraine.