The Unexpected capabilities - Venus in a New Light
NASA's Parker Solar probe has successfully taken its first visible light images of the surface of Venus, finally capturing the red hot glow of the planet's surface which could prove to be really helpful to understand the minerals and heat features on the surface of this mysterious planet. Venus also called the 'Evil twin' is smothered in thick clouds and obstructs all the visible light coming from it. Back in the 1990, NASA's Magellan mission did create the first maps of the planet based on radar and infrared images, however they were not visible to the human eye. Today, NASA's Parker solar probe (WISPR) instrument has been able to photograph the entire night side of the planet in wavelengths of visible spectrum. WISPR was designed to see faint features in the solar wind coming from the Sun. Various scientists had expected that the probe would only be able to capture the clouds, however, WISPR saw through the planet. The longest visible wavelengths, bordering th...