NASA's latest image of Venus taken by the Parker Solar Probe. Using Venus's gravity, the Parker Probe will circle our host star seven times while getting closer and closer over the course of seven years. (Credits: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Naval Research Laboratory/Guillermo Stenborg and Brendan Gallagher)
by Elizabeth Gamillo/Smithsonianmag.com
The dense atmosphere shrouding Venus with toxic sulfuric yellow clouds has made the planet’s surface difficult, but not impossible to peer through. On its mission toward the Sun, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe captured a striking image of Venus that unexpectedly revealed features of the planet’s surface and atmosphere, reports Meghan Bartels for