NASA's solar probe avoids thinking of the Earth as it moves rapidly towards the Sun

NASA began its "touching the sun" mission in mid-August, sending Parker's solar probe to our star for a one-of-a-kind journey that will hopefully yield all sorts of interesting information. . The probe is still far away from the Sun, having not yet reached its first rendezvous with Venus, but it took her a while to look at her home anyway.

In a new image released by NASA, the probe turns to Earth, which appears at a bright spot in a star-covered canvas. The photo is the first glimpse of the modest imaging capabilities of the probe, but it's still a very beautiful image.

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"The image was captured by the WISPR instrument (wide-field solar probe imager), which is the only imaging instrument built into the Parker solar probe," NASA explains in a blog post. "During scientific phases, WISPR sees structures in the Sun's atmosphere, the crown, before they fly over the spacecraft. The two panels of the WISPR image come from the two telescopes of the instrument, which point in slightly different directions and have different fields of view. The inner bezel produced the left image, while the outer bezel produced the right image. "

It is impossible to miss the Earth in the image, which shines brightly when sunlight is reflected on the planet. According to NASA, the hemispherical shape apparently moved further down the image is a reflection of the lens.

The first interaction between Parker Solar Probe and Venus will take place at the beginning of November. He will use the gravity of Venus to adjust his trajectory several times during his mission of more than 6 years. It will eventually complete dozens of orbits of the Sun and will make many scientific observations along the way.

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