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NASA's Solar Parker solar probe, which began its journey to the Sun to solve many mysteries, captured a 27 million-kilometer view of the Earth, the US Space Agency said. The image was captured by the WISPR (Wide Field Imager for Solar Probe) instrument, the only onboard imaging instrument on board the Parker Solar Probe.
On September 25, the Parker Solar Probe captured a view of the Earth as she was heading towards the Nasa said in a statement that the first gravitational badistance of the mission had been carried out by Venus.
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The hemispheric feature in the middle of the right image is a stray light, common feature during the "Rockstar Village". imaging of light sources, caused by reflections
In this case, the stray light is due to the very bright glare of the Earth, noted NASA.
The Earth is the round and bright object visible in the right side of the image, he added.
Parker Solar Probe's WISPR view shows the Earth, the luminous sphere near the center of the right panel. The elongated mark down panel is a reflection of the lens of the WISPR instrument.
It also shows what appears to be a bulge on the right side of our planet – the moon, NASA said.
objects such as Pleiades, located in the lower left of the Earth in the right image and the two luminous objects.
Betelgeuse and Bellatrix, near the bottom of the left image, appeared elongated due to reflections on the edge of the detector. .
Launched on August 12, Parker Solar Probe, NASA's historic spacecraft, the size of a small car, is gradually getting closer to the Sun until it reaches its point on the ground. closer to 3.8 million miles.
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Earlier this month, the probe had completed its first flight over Venus at a distance of about 1,500 miles. Throughout its mission, the spacecraft will perform another six badists to the gravity of Venus and 24 total pbades by the Sun.
During scientific phases, the WISPR sees structures in the Sun's atmosphere, the crown, before they fly over the spacecraft. Venus and Mercury pbadages may occasionally create similar patterns in the future, but these are limited cases and do not affect the scientific activities of the instrument, NASA said.
(With the help of agencies)
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