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On January 14,2020

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe recorded the sound of plasma when its waves quickly shift from one frequency to another as they move through the solar wind.

Also, the probe recorded the sound of dust from asteroids torn apart by the Sun’s gravity and solar heating. These particles stripped from comets strike the spacecraft at speeds close to a quarter of a million miles per hour. The probe was protected already from the dust

On May 9,2020

The nearly two-month campaign is spurred by Parker Solar Probe's earlier observations, which revealed significant rotation of the solar wind and solar wind phenomena occurring much farther from the Sun than previously thought.

NASA explained that the clouds surrounding Venus block most of the light surrounding it, but the longest visible wavelengths make it pass, and while red light is mostly lost in daytime images, the only way WISPR allowed to see the temperature of the planet when it passes at night. This opportunity came with a flight on February 2021, and it was the mission's fourth flight on Venus when the spacecraft passed close to the nocturnal planet for the first time, so WISPR picked up wavelengths ranging from near infrared to visible.