What We Learned About Venus From the Parker Solar Probe

While Parker Solar Probe was on its latest close approach to Venus, the mission team, located at the Applied Physics Laboratory at John Hopkins, decided it would collect some data. Some of that data resulted in the picture beneath the clouds, but some used a different instrument. FIELDS is an instrument that can measure electric and magnetic fields. It was designed for use in the Sun’s atmosphere, but it also picked up a strange signal during a 7 minute stretch of the approach to Venus. In the data, the signal looked like a frown at very low frequencies. In another moment of scientific serendipity, Dr. Collinson remembered where he had seen a signal that looked like that before.

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