scientists were surprised to find the spacecraft's camera could peer through Venus' dense clouds all the way to its surface, revealing distinct features, such as continental regions, plains and ...

The Parker Probe will use Venus as a gravity assist today, skimming past the planet's surface at a distance of 233 miles and slingshotting away toward the sun. When a spacecraft approaches a ...

In July 2020, its camera -- the Wide-Field Imager for Parker Solar Probe, or WISPR-- captured images of Venus' scorching-hot surface through the thick cloud cover. The WISPR cameras were able to see ...

But what about Venus, one of Earth’s closest neighbors, or planets and moons even farther away? Scientists and space agencies ...

The Venus surface, as photographed by the USSR Venera ... Venus (true color & enhanced contrast) as seen by the Mariner 10 spacecraft in 1974. (Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech) Exactly why Venus has ...

of the Sun's surface. Since it was launched in 2018, the Parker Solar Probe has been using a series of flybys of Venus to carry out slingshot maneuvers that have shifted its trajectory closer and ...

The spacecraft passed just 3.8 million miles (6.1 million kilometres) from the solar surface on Dec. 24 ... has been gradually circling closer towards the sun, using flybys of Venus to gravitationally ...