NASA's Parker Solar Probe made history on Christmas Eve by completing its closest-ever approach to the Sun, coming within 3.8 ...
NASA's Parker ... solar wind, measuring the properties of electrons, protons and helium ions. The Wide-field Imager for Solar Probe Plus (WISPR) is a telescope that makes three-dimensional images ...
Editor's Note: This story was originally published Dec. 24 and updated Friday, Dec. 27 at 10:45 a.m. EST to confirm that the Parker Solar Probe had ... NASA announced. Images gathered during ...
The Parker Solar Probe is attempting ... snapped captivating pictures and yielded insights about Venus. The first WISPR images of Venus taken in July 2020 during the probe’s third flyby.Credit ...
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 cover. The WISPR cameras were able to ...
No human-made object has ever passed this close to a star, so Parker will truly be returning data from uncharted territory,” ...
The Delta IV Heavy rocket will take NASA's Parker Solar Probe to an interplanetary trajectory to the sun. (Red Huber/Orlando Sentinel via TNS via Getty Images, FILE) Tools aboard the probe will ...