For the first time in history, NASA captured Venus in visible light.

a NASA spacecraft has captured images of the surface of Venus in the visible light spectrum. The Parker Solar Probe took the snaps in July 2020 while passing the nearby planet on its mission to study the Sun. Venus a team showed that a stinky gas called phosphine can be found in clouds 30 miles above its surface. The colorless gas NASA captured Venus in visible light. For the first time allowing experts to investigate the makeup of Venus’ surface. The research will be published this week in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. Venus remains of particular interest to scientists after a recent study uncovered what could be evidence of life on the nearby planet. In 2020 The surface of Venus NASA released images taken during two PSP flybys with the spacecraft’s WISPR instrument. WISPR is optimized for visible light . The last probe to land on Venus was part of the Russian Vega 2 mission in 1985. NASA is planning to launch the Veritas mission in 2026 to orbit and map the surface of Venus. meaning it takes images in wavelengths that the human eye can see. The snaps of Venus’s night side were an attempt to image Venus’ cloud layer but unexpectedly also showed surface features below. They show Venusian features such as the continental region Aphrodite Terra he added. Clouds obstruct most of the visible light emanating from Venus’ surface has a surface temperature of 867 degrees Fahrenheit