NASA's Parker solar probe moves to Sun; send the view of the earth to the house

The NASA solar probe Parker, which began its journey to the Sun to uncover many mysteries, captured some 27 million kilometers of a view of the Earth, the US Space Agency said. The image was captured by the WISPR instrument (Wide-field Imager for Solar Probe), the only onboard imaging instrument on the Parker Solar Probe.

On September 25, the Parker Solar Probe captured a view of the Earth as she was heading to Venus' first attendance at the gravity of the mission, NASA said in a statement.

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The hemispherical function in the center of the right image is a stray light, a common feature when viewing 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 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 from the WISPR instrument.

It also shows what appears to be a bulge on the right side of our planet – the moon, NASA said.

The image also showed objects such as Pleiades, located in the lower left corner 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 small-size historic sensor probe, will gradually move closer to the Sun until it reaches its closest point at 3 o'clock. , 8 million miles.

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Earlier this month, the spacecraft completed its first flight over Venus at a distance of approximately 1,500 miles. During its mission, the spacecraft will perform another six assists to the gravity of Venus and 24 passes in total by the Sun.

During the scientific phases, WISPR sees structures in the atmosphere of the Sun, the crown, before they fly over the spacecraft.

Close passages of Venus and Mercury may occasionally create similar patterns in the future, but these are limited cases and do not affect the scientific operations of the instrument, NASA said.

(With agency contributions)