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Detailed explanation-1: -A full analysis of the images and video, published on Feb. 9, 2022, in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, is adding to scientists’ understanding of the planet likened as Earth’s twin. NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has taken its first visible light images of the surface of Venus from space.

Detailed explanation-2: -As Parker Solar Probe flew past Venus for the fourth time in February 2021, its WISPR instrument captured these images, strung into a video, showing the planet’s nightside surface.

Detailed explanation-3: -Parker Solar Probe has also studied comets, detected radio emissions from Venus’ atmosphere, and even captured the first-ever images of Venus’ surface in visible wavelengths.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Parker Solar Probe’s mission is to study the sun in unprecedented detail. The revolutionary solar probe became the first spacecraft to “touch” the sun when it swooped inside the sun’s outer atmosphere, or corona, during its eighth flyby on April 28, 2021, according to a statement from NASA (opens in new tab).

Detailed explanation-5: -’ NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has captured its first visible light images of the surface of Venus. Using its Wide-Field Imager (WISPR) instrument, Parker imaged the entire nightside in wavelengths of the visible spectrum and extending into the near-infrared in two recent flybys.