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) ...

During the probe's third Venus flyby in July 2020, its camera – the Wide-Field Imager for Parker Solar Probe, or WISPR – captured images of Venus' scorching-hot surface through the thick cloud ...

NASA illustration of the Parker Solar Probe (main) and NASA image of Venus taken by the Mariner 10 spacecraft (inset). Parker will image Venus's surface as it flies by the planet today on its way ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe swoops in for its seventh and final swing past Venus ahead of its history-making encounter with the sun on Christmas Eve.

The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter captured the first-ever images of the sun's south pole in March, which were ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has been whizzing through space since 2018 at incredible speed, but it has yet to reach its final destination.Following a recent flyby of the planet Venus, Parker is ...

The Parker Solar Probe, which studies the sun, caught rare images of Venus' nightside during a brief encounter in February 2021.. The dark area shown is a massive highlands region called Aphrodite ...

NASA is gearing up for its Parker Solar Probe to do a final flyby of Venus on Wednesday on its way to making history as the closest any human-made object has ever been to the sun. Parker will use ...

During the probe's third Venus flyby in July 2020, its camera – the Wide-Field Imager for Parker Solar Probe, or WISPR – captured images of Venus' scorching-hot surface through the thick cloud ...