Image: First light data for NASA’s Parker Solar Probe

Just over a month into its mission, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has returned first-light data from each of its four instrument suites. These early observations – while not yet examples of the key science observations Parker Solar Probe will take closer to the sun – show that each of the instruments is working well. The instruments work in tandem to measure the sun’s electric and magnetic fields, particles from the sun and the solar wind, and capture images of the environment around the spacecraft.