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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe was almost on the opposite side of the Sun from the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft when its WIPSR instrument recorded images of Comet Leonard on 7 December 2021. From Parker Solar Probe’s viewpoint the comet appeared to pass directly between Venus and Earth.
The comet moves from the mid/upper-left and diagonally down between Venus and Earth in this sequence. Click here for an unlabelled version.