The spacecraft will get seven times closer to the sun than any probe ever has.
Parker solar probe images.
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.
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.
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.
When the parker solar probe reaches the sun we can expect images of a very different kind.
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.
The faint grid pattern near the center of the image is an artifact of the way the image is created.
The bright streak is a coronal streamer.
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Parker solar probe acquired this image 1st ever photo taken from inside the sun s outer atmosphere or corona on december 8 2018.
Basically wispr will take pictures of coronal mass ejections cmes jets and other ejecta from the sun.
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An artistic rendering of solar orbiter at the sun.
Nasa s parker solar probe launched a year ago on a mission to touch the sun.