NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has taken its first visible-light images of the surface of Venus from space.
Smothered in thick clouds, Venus’s surface is usually shrouded from sight. But in two recent flybys of the planet, Parker used its Wide-Field Imager, or WISPR, to image the entire nightside in wavelengths of the visible spectrum–the type of light that the human eye can see–and extending into the near-infrared.
