Authors: Shaheda Begum Shaik (GMU/NRL, US), Shadia R. Habbal (University of Hawaii, US), Miloslav Druckmüller (Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic), Zac Bailey (University of Hawaii, US), Nathalia Alzate (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), Riddhi Bandyopadhyay (Princeton University, US), and Sage Constantinou (University of Hawaii, US)

Different manifestations of plasma instabilities in the inner corona, within a radius of the solar surface, emerged more than a decade ago from space-based and ground-based total solar eclipse observations. Images from the WISPR instrument onboard the Parker Solar Probe (PSP) have recently yielded evidence for plasma instabilities as well. This study provides the first comparative analysis of these manifestations and demonstrates that WISPR captures their evolution into the outer corona, practically unscathed. This comparison also includes substructures of Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) and other transient phenomena. The coronal eclipse observations show that prominences, whose eruptions are known to lead to CMEs, serve as the sources of these instabilities, which evolve from the inner corona and into the field of view of WISPR at distances ranging from around 5 to 10 R_sun.