SolO orbit data plots

This repository contains scripts to create the Solar Orbiter orbit data plots, prepared by Johan von Forstner and Alexander Kollhoff.

The plotting style was inspired by a plot from McComas et al., 2019 (Figure 1) for Parker Solar Probe IS𐍈IS.

Plots can be produced in a plain matplotlib style ('plain') or in a style that emulates the ESA press release version of this plot ('esa'). For the latter, the NotesEsa font needs to be installed, which can be found in the fonts directory.

Requirements

• Python >= 3.7
• SolO Loader for loading the Solar Orbiter data
• ET SPICE for accessing the SPICE kernels to get the orbit data
• matplotlib for plotting

License

The Python code in this repository is licensed under the GPL v3 (see LICENSE file). The NotesEsa font is copyrighted by the European Space Agency, it was taken from the ESA website.