NASA’s Parker Solar Probe took its first visible light images of surface of Venus from space.

Highlights

• Surface of Venus is usually shrouded from sight, covered in thick clouds. But in two recent flybys, Parker Solar Probe used its Wide-Field Imager (WISPR) to image the entire nightside in wavelengths of visible spectrum.
• It was a type of light that human eye can see and extend into near-infrared.
• The images were combined into a video, revealing a faint glow from the surface, which highlights distinctive features such as continental regions, plateaus and plains.
• A luminescent halo of oxygen can also be witnessed around the planet, in the atmosphere.

Significance of the images

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By: Brijesh Kumar