NASA's Parker Solar Probe has taken its first visible light images of the surface of Venus from space. Smothered in thick clouds, Venus' surface is usually shrouded from sight. But in two recent ...

NASA has confirmed that its Parker Solar Probe managed to capture the first visible light images of Venus' surface from space after the spacecraft flew past the planet in 2020 and 2021.

The Parker Solar Probe captured these images of Venus using its its WISPR instrument during its fourth flyby in February 2021, showing the nightside surface of the planet. (Image credit: NASA/APL/NRL) ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has taken its first visible light images of the surface of Venus from space. Smothered in thick clouds, Venus’ surface is usually shrouded from sight. But in two ...

Though designed to study the Sun, NASA's Parker Solar Probe has scored a first by collecting the first images of the surface of Venus in visible light using its Wide-Field Imager (WISPR) while ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has captured its first visible light images of the surface of Venus. Using its Wide-Field Imager (WISPR) instrument, Parker imaged the entire nightside in wavelengths of ...

During the mission’s third Venus gravity assist on July 11, 2020, the onboard Wide-field Imager for Parker Solar Probe, or WISPR, captured a striking image of the planet’s nightside from 7,693 ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has taken its first visible light images of the surface of Venus from space. Smothered in thick clouds, Venus’ surface is usually shrouded from sight. But in two ...

When flying past Venus in July 2020, Parker Solar Probe’s WISPR instrument, short for Wide-field Imager for Parker Solar Probe, detected a bright rim around the edge of the planet that may be ...

The Parker Solar Probe mission, intended to study the sun, has revealed more about what lies beneath the thick atmosphere of Venus. The spacecraft captured its first visible light images of the ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe peered through Venus’ cloud cover to take the first visible-light images (one shown) of the planet’s surface captured from space. The large dark splotch in the ...