WISPR

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WISPR is the wide-field imaging instrument aboard NASA’s Parker Solar Probe that captures visible-light images of the Sun’s corona and solar wind.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf scientific instrument
space telescope instrument
wide-field imaging instrument
aboard Parker Solar Probe NERFINISHED
acronymFor Wide-field Imager for Parker Solar Probe NERFINISHED
collaboration NASA Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory NERFINISHED
Naval Research Laboratory NERFINISHED
countryOfOperator United States of America
surface form: United States
dataType visible-light images
white-light images of the corona and solar wind
dataUsedFor constraining models of the inner heliosphere
studying CME propagation
studying solar wind acceleration
designedBy U.S. Naval Research Laboratory NERFINISHED
enables imaging of solar wind structures close to the Sun
tracking of coronal mass ejections from the low corona into the heliosphere
environment near-Sun space environment
fieldOfView wide-field
fullName Wide-field Imager for Parker Solar Probe NERFINISHED
hasComponent inner telescope
outer telescope
heritageFrom STEREO Heliospheric Imagers NERFINISHED
hostStar Sun NERFINISHED
launchDate 2018-08-12
launchSite Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 37 NERFINISHED
launchVehicle Delta IV Heavy NERFINISHED
mission Parker Solar Probe mission NERFINISHED
numberOfTelescopes 2
observes coronal mass ejections
dust structures near the Sun
heliospheric structures
solar corona
solar wind
onboard Parker Solar Probe spacecraft bus NERFINISHED
operator NASA
partOf Parker Solar Probe payload
primaryWavelength visible light
records images during close solar perihelion passes
relatedMission STEREO SECCHI HI imagers NERFINISHED
scienceDiscipline heliophysics
solar physics
scientificPurpose to image the solar corona in visible light
to investigate dust distribution in the inner heliosphere
to observe coronal mass ejections close to the Sun
to study the structure and evolution of the solar wind
spacecraft Parker Solar Probe NERFINISHED
type white-light heliospheric imager

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