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NASA expected its Parker Solar Probe to reveal new insights into the sun — the craft literally has "solar" in its name.
What it didn't expect was for Parker to snap a picture of the surface of Venus that may change what we thought we knew about the planet — or possibly the probe itself.
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The Parker Solar Probe launched in 2018 with the ambitious mission of getting closer to the sun than any craft before it. From that unprecedented vantage point, it could collect data that would expand our understanding of the star and its impact on Earth.