Venus views from NASA sun probe show potential of hitchhiking science instruments – Space.com

Halfway through a series of opportunistic Venus
observations, scientists say that a NASA sun spacecraft’s success studying our strange neighbor will pave the way for future measurements.
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe
launched in August 2018 on a seven-year mission to touch the sun, dancing through our star’s corona, the sun’s superhot atmosphere that is invisible but shapes conditions across the solar system. That mission requires a trajectory creeping closer to the sun’s visible surface with each…

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