We among stars
We among stars
The Earth from the Parker probe.
He will never return home, not even to make a punctual flyby in search of extra impulse. His destiny, our star, is already his final goal, and also there, between the solar glare, will end his existence. But that does not prevent him from looking to the world that saw him being born and from which he comes. It is not the first time that a probe observes land, in fact they have done it many before and they will continue doing it later, but they are all special, since it means looking at ourselves. And the Parker It is not an exception.
It is not a ship equipped with a remarkable optical system, something compressible when it is intended to literally touch the solar photosphere. Or what is the same, in a sea of blinding light and terrible heat that did not advise equipping it with high-level cameras. But if a modest "eyes", known as WISPR (Wide-field Imager for Solar Probe), that at the time, in the shadow of the rest of the probe, will try to observe the intricate structures of the Crown, where the solar wind is born. Soon we will see it in action, but for the moment, on September 25, they looked towards another star in the sky, the one in which we all live. The land floating in the cosmic sea. Even being images without color are extremely beautiful.
In the months and years to come Parker will write a brilliant new page in the history of space exploration, and all of our eyes will be focused on the Sun, knowing that there, among her dazzling radiance, a terrestrial envoy faces the hardest of tests. Maybe then we will no longer remember an image like this, modest but full of meaning. Reason to talk about it.
The enlarged image, with a bulge to the right of our planet, The Moon.
The Parker, with the WISPR camera located in the shadow of the protective shield. It will never look directly at the Sun, but will focus on the Crown.
Parker Solar Probe Looks Back at Home
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