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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe surprises scientists with wild image of Venus – CNET
A camera installed on the probe suggests it may be more sensitive to infrared light than expected.
Venus aglow, amid the stars. The dark region on the surface is known as Aphrodite Terra.
NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Naval Research Laboratory/Guillermo Stenborg and Brendan Gallagher
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, a diminutive spacecraft designed to “touch the sun,” nabbed wild new images of the hellacious planet Venus in a recent flyby, surprising scientists and offering new opportunities for science.
While flying past Venus, the probe captured photos of a bright rim of light around the planet, NASA…
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