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Solving the sun's super-heating mystery with Parker Solar Probe
Phys dot org ^ | June 2019 | James Lynch, University of Michigan

Posted on 06/06/2019 12:08:09 AM PDT by SunkenCiv

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Why is the Sun's outer atmosphere hotter than its fiery surface? Thanks to NASA's Parker Solar Probe, University of Michigan researchers believe they will soon have an answer. In roughly two years, the probe will be the first manmade craft to enter the zone of preferential heating boundary. The Parker Solar Probe lifted off in August 2018 and had its first rendezvous with the sun in November 2018 -- already getting closer to the sun than any other human-made object. In the coming years, Parker will get even closer with each pass until the probe falls below the Alfvén point. In their paper, Kasper and Klein predict it should enter the zone of preferential heating in 2021 as the boundary expands with increasing solar activity. Then, NASA will have information direct from the source to answer all manner of long-standing questions. This research is led by Justin Kasper, an Associate Professor of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering at U-M. | Solving the Sun's burning mystery | Michigan Engineering | Published on June 4, 2019 | YouTube

Solving the Sun's burning mystery | Michigan Engineering | Published on June 4, 2019 | YouTube

1 posted on 06/06/2019 12:08:09 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: 75thOVI; Abathar; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AnalogReigns; AndrewC; aragorn; ...



2 posted on 06/06/2019 12:08:35 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv
Alfven waves. Named after the first to discover them, no doubt.


3 posted on 06/06/2019 12:25:05 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: SunkenCiv
Do you suppose some ass hat 🎩 libtard will propose a new tax, that will be used to cool down the sun’s atmosphere?
4 posted on 06/06/2019 12:25:09 AM PDT by Mark17 (With Jesus, there is more wealth in my soul, than acres of diamonds and mountains of gold.)
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To: Mark17
Could try, but I don't like the odds of success, and I mean in several different ways.

5 posted on 06/06/2019 12:26:49 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Send a spaceship full of them out there with bags of ice.


6 posted on 06/06/2019 1:00:51 AM PDT by Salamander (Death makes angels of us all, and give us wings where we once had shoulders, smooth as ravens' claws)
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To: Salamander
That'll work, as long as they go at night. Or during an eclipse.

7 posted on 06/06/2019 1:16:53 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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Parker almost had to build this, they've never gotten over the embarrassment of having Fisher beat them to the space pen.

8 posted on 06/06/2019 1:19:26 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv
Many years ago, I recall reading that “super-heating” in the corona is something of a misnomer because the gases are so rarefied in that region they lack the density to really “heat” up anything.

Is that basically correct?

9 posted on 06/06/2019 1:42:51 AM PDT by zeestephen
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To: SunkenCiv

Pffft.

Just give ‘em some Copper Tone and sunglasses.

They’ll be fine.


10 posted on 06/06/2019 2:29:45 AM PDT by Salamander (Death makes angels of us all, and give us wings where we once had shoulders, smooth as ravens' claws)
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To: zeestephen

It’s frigging June and last night was 43 degrees.

I WANT MY GLOBAL WARMING!


11 posted on 06/06/2019 2:30:54 AM PDT by Salamander (Death makes angels of us all, and give us wings where we once had shoulders, smooth as ravens' claws)
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To: SunkenCiv

Regarding this and other probes: It is a very bad idea to f*** around with the sun.


12 posted on 06/06/2019 2:31:23 AM PDT by Jim Noble (1)
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To: SunkenCiv

Solar wind heats up planet Jupiter
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3740786/posts


13 posted on 06/06/2019 3:26:23 AM PDT by mosesdapoet (mosesdapoet aka L,J,Keslin posting for the record hoping some might read and pass around)
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To: Salamander

Why waste the ice? You’d have room for more of them if you skipped the ice.

I’m just saying, if we’re going to send a spaceship to the Sun filled with asshat climate commies, lets pack as many of them in there (comfortably of course, at least for the launch) as we can.

We could name the ship the Pinocet!


14 posted on 06/06/2019 4:31:00 AM PDT by BTerclinger (MAGA)
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Forget the solar wind, you need The Summer Wind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DopzOCeKJc

As a matter of fact, we could pipe this in to the Starship Pinocet and play it over and over...


15 posted on 06/06/2019 4:34:08 AM PDT by BTerclinger (MAGA)
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To: mosesdapoet

thanks

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3740786/posts?page=38#38


16 posted on 06/06/2019 11:04:29 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: BTerclinger
Look Into The Sun-Jethro Tull

Look Into The Sun-Jethro Tull

17 posted on 06/06/2019 11:07:49 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: zeestephen
That looks like one of those whistling past the graveyard kinds of things. The temperature jumps from about 5000 (cornea) to a million (corona), and based on physics models it shouldn't be doing that. If low density were a factor, there wouldn't be any data to support the observation of the anomaly.

18 posted on 06/06/2019 11:30:51 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Jim Noble
Agreed. Or with Billy the Mountain.

19 posted on 06/06/2019 12:14:21 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Salamander
And Ray can pilot it. You've heard of him, Ray Ban. I went to school with his older brother. Both of them went into the USAF then the astronaut corps. They were unflappable, no matter what problems they faced, they just would roll on.

20 posted on 06/06/2019 12:17:17 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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