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.
Parker solar probe images.
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.
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.
Basically wispr will take pictures of coronal mass ejections cmes jets and other ejecta from the sun.
See images of nasa s parker solar probe mission which the agency plans to launch in july 2018.
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The faint grid pattern near the center of the image is an artifact of the way the image is created.
Wispr s telescopes will provide white light images of the solar wind shocks solar ejecta and other structures as they approach and pass the spacecraft.
Parker solar probe acquired this image 1st ever photo taken from inside the sun s outer atmosphere or corona on december 8 2018.
When the parker solar probe reaches the sun we can expect images of a very different kind.
The bright streak is a coronal streamer.
The spacecraft will get seven times closer to the sun than any probe ever has.
The sun is out of frame to the left.
Nasa s parker solar probe launched a year ago on a mission to touch the sun.
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