Nasa s parker solar probe launched a year ago on a mission to touch the sun.
Parker solar probe images.
The bright streak is a coronal streamer.
The faint grid pattern near the center of the image is an artifact of the way the image is created.
An unprocessed image from the wispr instrument on board nasa s parker solar probe shows comet neowise on july 5 2020 shortly after its closest approach to the sun.
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When the parker solar probe reaches the sun we can expect images of a very different kind.
The spacecraft will get seven times closer to the sun than any probe ever has.
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An artistic rendering of solar orbiter at the sun.
Parker solar probe acquired this image 1st ever photo taken from inside the sun s outer atmosphere or corona on december 8 2018.
The wide field imager for solar probe or wispr is aboard nasa s parker solar probe to take images of the solar corona the sun s atmosphere and inner heliosphere.
But the parker solar probe does not have a camera that images the sun s surface directly and that s where solar orbiter comes in handy.
Since that fiery early morning liftoff with the mission s namesake eugene parker in attendance the probe has made.
See images of nasa s parker solar probe mission which the agency plans to launch in july 2018.
The wispr instrument on nasa s parker solar probe captured imagery of the constant outflow of material from the sun during its close approach to the sun in april 2019.