Encounter 8 (04-24-2021 - 05-04-2021, with limited additional data 04-14-2021 - 05-15-2021)
This animation shows all WISPR full-field observations from the eighth PSP Mission Encounter (04-24-2021 - 05-04-2021). We have superimposed a grid showing heliocentric longitude and latitude. The timespan of this composite movie covers primarily the nominal science window when the spacecraft was within 0.25 au.
Note that some saturation of the data occurred in the inner part of the field of view on both Inner and Outer cameras, seen as the oval shaped features near the left-hand edge of each field of view.
You can download this movie as a 20Mb mp4 file.
[Credit: NRL/NASA. Movie processed/compiled by Guillermo Stenborg and Brendan Gallagher (NRL).]
Solar Features
2021/04/24 16:00 CME
2021/04/24 21:00 Repeating Loop Structures (Possible CME flythrough or repeating outflow stream)
2021/04/25 18:00 CME
2021/04/26 16:30 Streamer blob
2021/04/27 03:00 Streamer blob
2021/04/27 14:30 CME
2021/04/28 17:00 Streamer blob
2021/04/29 00:00 HCS Crossing
2021/05/01 02:00 Streamer blob
2021/05/04 02:30 CME
Comets and planets
Kreutz-group Sungrazing comets SOHO-4176 and SOHO-4177 were observable on 2021-04-24 in the lower-left quadrant of the data.
The following planets can be seen in the nominal encounter sequence movie (top of page), moving from left to right:
- TBD
Operations summary
- N/A
Miscellaneous notes
- N/A
Encounter 8 Data Products
- Encounter 8 Level-2 FITS (9.3 Gb zip file)
- Encounter 8 Level-2b FITS, Background Models (6.9 Gb zip file)
- Encounter 8 Level-3 FITS (7.0 Gb zip file)
- Encounter 8 L1 and L2 Summary Files (<1 MB zip file)
- L3 png files for Encounter 8, Inner Camera
- L3 png files for Encounter 8, Outer Camera
- Encounter 8, Inner mpg, 480x512px (135 MB)
- Encounter 8, Inner mpg, 960x1024px (714 MB)
- Encounter 8, Outer mpg, 480x512px (117 MB)
- Encounter 8, Outer mpg, 960x1024px (580 MB)
- Encounter 8, Inner mvi, 480x512px (348 MB)
- Encounter 8, Inner mvi, 960x1024px (1.4 GB)
- Encounter 8, Outer mvi, 480x512px (155 MB)
- Encounter 8, Outer mvi, 960x1024px (622 MB)
Released data for all encounters can be obtained from our WISPR Data Page. Descriptions of other encounters can be found on the Encounter Summaries Page.