Puzzle Page #8: WISPR
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Today's Puzzle Answer: WISPR
WISPR, or the Wide-field Imager for Solar Probe, is one of four instrument suites aboard Parker Solar Probe, but it is the only imager. WISPR does not look directly at the Sun; instead, it was designed to capture expansive views of the solar wind. Its very wide field of view extends from 13° away from the center of the Sun to 108° from the Sun.
But WISPR has seen much more than the solar wind. During Parker's first Venus gravity assist, on a whim, mission scientists decided to turn the instrument on. The results were stunning, and over the next few Venus flybys, WISPR captured the first-ever visible-light images of Venus' surface from space.
View more of WISPR's imagery from inside the solar atmosphere.
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