Encounter 2 Summary

Encounter 2, 2019-03-30 - 2019-04-10

 

This animation shows all WISPR full-field observations from the second PSP Mission Encounter (Mar30 - Apr10, 2019), using L3 observations. We have superimposed a grid showing helioprojective longitude and latitude, and a scale representation of the size and location of the Sun in the observations using the SDO/HMI Carrington map for this time period. The velocity and distance metrics displayed on the movies correspond respectively to the spacecraft's heliocentric velocity in kilometers per second, and its distance from the Sun's center in units of solar radii (where 1 solar radius = 695,700km). The "FOV Range" label provides the plane-of-sky distance limits of the inner and outermost edges of the fields of view, in units of solar radii. The horizontal blue line indicates the orbital plane of PSP. The timespan of this composite movie covers only the nominal science window when the spacecraft was within 0.25 au; a limited amount of data outside of this range may be available at the below links.
You can also download this movie directly as a 28MB mp4 file. It is also available in the same format processed via the LW algorithm, developed by Dr. Guillermo Stenborg (JHUAPL) and detailed in Appendix A of Howard et al. 2022 (ApJ, 936, id.43. DOI 10.3847/1538-4357/ac7ff5), and can be downloaded here as a 146MB mp4 file.

[Credit: NASA/NRL/JHUAPL. Movie processed/compiled by Guillermo Stenborg (JHUAPL) and Brendan Gallagher (NRL). SDO inset courtesy of NASA/SDO and the AIA, EVE, and HMI science teams.]

 

Solar Features

2019/03/30 12:00 - Streamer blob
2019/04/01 09:00 - CME
2019/04/02 13:00 - CME
2019/04/05 03:00 - Streamer blob
2019/04/06 15:00 - Streamer blob
2019/04/07 03:00 - Streamer blob
2019/04/08 09:00 - Streamer blob

Comets and planets

No comets were known to be observed during this encounter. The following planets can be seen in this sequence, moving from left to right:

  • Earth, WISPR-Outer camera, from the beginning of the encounter
  • Mercury, WISPR-Inner camera, from the beginning of the encounter
  • Jupiter, WISPR-Inner camera, beginning approx. 2019-04-01 08:00UT
  • Saturn, WISPR-Inner camera, beginning approx. 2019-04-03 09:00UT
  • Venus, WISPR-Inner camera, beginning approx. 2019-04-03 18:00UT

Operations summary

  • A gap in synoptic observations can be seen from 2019-04-04 11:50 - 2019-04-05 01:50 

Miscellaneous notes

None.

Encounter 2 Data Products


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.

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