Question: NASA’s Parker Solar Probe recently took its first visible light Images of which of the following planet?
a) Mars
b) Venus
c) Mercury
d) Jupiter
Answer: (b)
Related Facts:
- NASA’s Parker Solar Probe took its first visible light images of the surface of Venus from space.
- It should be known that the surface of Venus is covered in thick clouds of toxic gases primarily of CO2 and H2SO4 and in small amount nitrogen.
- Now in two recent flybys, Parker Solar Probe used its Wide-Field Imager (WISPR) to image the whole nightside in wavelengths of the color spectrum.
- It should be known that Venus, is also called as the twins of the Earth, being a rocky planet and similarities in shape and size as our planet.
- Such images of Earth’s twin would help scientists learn more about the surface geology of Venus, minerals that could be present there, and its evolution.
- It was a kind of sunshine that the human eye could see and extend into near-infrared.
- The images were combined into a video, revealing a faint glow from the surface, highlighting distinctive features like continental regions, plateaus, and plains.
- A luminescent halo of oxygen also can be witnessed around the planet, within the atmosphere.
By – Rajesh Tripathi