NASA has captured the first lighted images of Venus from space, giving us a better look at the Earth's twin.
Image: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Naval Research Laboratory/Guillermo Stenborg and Brendan Gallagherto study the sun. However, the spacecraft has also managed to capture a series of first-of-their-kind images of Venus. The images feature the surface of Venus in visible light. A first for NASA. Parker captured the photos using its Wide-Field Imager . The images were snapped during two gravity-assisted flybys in July 2020 and February 2021.
Grabbing these images of Venus wasn’t originally part of the plan. After all, the Parker Solar Probe was built to study the Sun. However, part of the journey to the Sun was using Venus’ gravity to slingshot the probe closer to our star. During that maneuver, NASA decided to capture images of the planet, too.
“The objective was to measure the speed of the clouds,” WISPR project scientist Angelos Vourlidas shared in a
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