[SAPOD]Today’s “Space Image”. We introduce characteristic images introduced by sorae in the past, attractive images released by space agencies of various countries, and images submitted by space astronomy fans and experts. (There is a link to the original article at the end of the article)
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- Image Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Naval Research Laboratory/Guillermo Stenborg and Brendan Gallagher
- sorae – A group photo of six planets taken from near the sun, an unprecedented perspective
This was introduced by sorae in the article on January 30, 2021.Image taken by the solar probe “Parker Solar Probe” on June 7, 2020“is.
Two large and small images are combined, but this is unique to WISPR, which has two cameras with different shooting directions and ranges, and the left and right images were taken at the same time on June 7, 2020, 14:00 Japan time. It is said to be 42 minutes.
This image shows six of the solar system’s eight planets, from Mercury to Saturn. As you can see in the annotated version below, the images are, from left to right, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Venus, Earth, and Mercury. Parker Solar Probe was about 158 million km away from Earth at this time, but it was only about 18.6 million km away from the surface of the sun.
[▲ Annotation added to the image at the beginning (Japanese notation added by the author) (Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Naval Research Laboratory/Guillermo Stenborg and Brendan Gallagher)]
“Imagine standing on the sun and looking at the stars,” said Nour Raouafi of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, project scientist for the Parker Solar Probe. “The combined portrait is awe-inspiring. Parker Solar Probe has given us a completely different perspective on where we are in the universe.”
A view from inside the solar corona.Photographed by the first NASA spacecraft to reach
2022.1.15
This is a video taken by NASA’s Parker Solar Probe. This spacecraft became the first spacecraft in human history to reach the solar corona. …
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