NASA's Parker solar probe records images of the Earth

The elongated mark down panel is a reflection of the lens by the WISPR instrument. (Image: NASA)

NASA's NASA solar probe, en route to the Sun to unravel its mysteries, captured a view of the Earth about 27 million kilometers away, the US agency said. The image was captured by the WISPR instrument (Wide-field Imager for Solar Probe), the only on-board imaging instrument on the Parker Solar Probe. On September 25, the Parker Solar Probe captured a view of the Earth as she headed for Venus's first badistance to the gravity of the mission, NASA said in a statement released on Wednesday.

the picture, he added. Parker Solar Probe's WISPR view shows the Earth, the luminous sphere in the middle of the right panel. The elongated mark down of the panel is a reflection of the lens by the WISPR instrument. It also shows what appears to be a bulge on the right side of our planet – the moon, NASA said.

The hemispherical shape function located in the center of the right image is a stray light, a common feature for light sources, which is caused by reflections in the lens system. In this case, the flare is due to the very bright glow of the Earth, noted NASA. The image also showed objects such as Pleiades, located in the lower left of the Earth, in the right image and the two luminous objects.

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Betelgeuse and Bellatrix, appearing elongated near the bottom of the left image, appeared elongated at causes reflections on the edge of the detector. Launched on August 12, Parker Solar Probe, NASA's historic small-car-sized spacecraft, is progressively getting closer to the Sun until it reaches its closest point at 3.8 million kilometers. miles. Earlier this month, the spacecraft completed its first flight over Venus at a distance of approximately 1500 km.

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Throughout its mission, the spacecraft will perform six more badists to the gravity of Venus and 24 pbadages in total by the Sun. During the scientific phases, WISPR sees structures in the Sun's atmosphere, the crown, before they fly over the spacecraft. Tight pbadages from Venus and Mercury may occasionally create similar patterns in the future, but there are limited cases that do not affect the scientific operations of the instrument, said The NASA.

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