Parker Solar Probe passed Venus in July 2020 and captured this image of the planet with cosmic rays, dust and back stars. Image through NASA.
NASA released this stunning image of Venus on February 24, 2021, taken by the Parker Solar Probe during the Venus flight in July 2020. The solar spacecraft – launched August 12, 2018 – is passing near Venus seven times in total during its seven-year mission to gain the help it needs to help steer the craft toward sweeping closer and closer to the surface of the sun.
Parker Solar Probe made its fourth of seven registered Venus gravity aids on February 20, 2021.
The Wide-field Image for Parker Solar Probe (WISPR) captured the image of Venus during the third phase of the planet Parker Solar Probe on July 11, 2020. The night side of Venus is captured, and the edge appears to be clear all the way. at night, or light emitted by high oxygen atoms in the atmosphere that enter molecules at night. The large dark area near the center of Venus is Aphrodite Terra, a vast area of the Highlands on the surface. The spacecraft was 7,693 miles (12,380 km) away when it captured this image.
The currents seen in the image are usually caused by a number of factors, including charged particles, sunlight reflected by grains of space dust, and particles of ejected material. spaceship after being hit by the dust particles. The strange black spot near the bottom is an artifact of a WISPR instrument.
To see the full image, including Orion with its belt and a famous nebula near the bottom right of the image, visit NASA’s Parker Solar Probe webpage.
That gravity will help use Venus, by the way, they will set Parker Solar Probe for the eighth and ninth sweep close past the sun, slated for April 29 and August 9, 2021. To in total, 24 orbits are recorded orbiting the sun during its seven-year mission. During this time, NASA likes to say, the probe “touches” the sun, that is, flies inside the solar atmosphere. During each sweep past the sun, NASA said, the Parker Solar Probe breaks its records near the sun.
Eventually, the Parker Solar Probe will come within 4 million miles (6 million km) of the sun’s surface.
Bottom line: While using Venus for gravity assistance, the Parker Solar Probe turned its camera on the planet and made this amazing image.
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