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NASA’s new spacecraft will travel within 26 MILES of the sun in order to gather data that will help scientist better predict solar storms
Dailymail.com ^
| 01/28/2020
| Stacy Liberatore
Posted on 01/28/2020 5:30:57 PM PST by BenLurkin
In collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA), the team is launching the Solar Orbiter that will use Venus's and Earth's gravity to swing itself out of the ecliptic plane the area of space aligned with the sun's equator, where all planets orbit.
From this position, the craft will feast its eyes on the first-ever look of the massive yellow dwarf star, which will provide scientists with better data to predict solar storms more accurately.
Solar Orbiter is equipped with a custom-designed titanium heat shield coated with a specific phosphate that withstands temperatures over 900 degrees Fahrenheit, allowing it to get within 26 miles of the blazing sun.
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TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: astronomy; icarus; polarorbit; science; solarorbiter; sun
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To: Blood of Tyrants
26 miles is well withing the suns corona.It runs the risk of being infected with a corona virus.
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posted on
01/29/2020 12:54:24 AM PST
by
Fresh Wind
(The Electoral College is the firewall protecting us from massive blue state vote fraud.)
To: BenLurkin
The way this article is written one would imagine they are talking about another solar system, for instance, who describes the sun as “the massive yellow dwarf star”? Who says the ‘first-ever look’ ... Has no one ever seen the sun before? What cave does the author live in?
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posted on
01/29/2020 1:48:45 AM PST
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
To: BenLurkin
26,000,000 miles is far short of the 4,000,000 miles that the Parker Solar Probe currently orbits the sun. So to this new probe: big whoop.
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posted on
01/29/2020 1:52:57 AM PST
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
To: reg45
Given that there is no way to calculate the distance from the boiling bubbling surface of the sun to begin with, I was only off by 1,000,000 miles +/- a mile or two.
Still closer than the over paid writer that started this whole thing off.
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posted on
01/29/2020 2:06:17 AM PST
by
oldvirginian
(I know not what course others may take but as for me Give me Liberty or give me death)
To: BenLurkin
What constitutes 26 miles from a “convulsing” surface?
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posted on
01/29/2020 3:50:58 AM PST
by
trebb
(Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
To: oldasrocks
I hope they go at night when it is not so hot.
LOL!!!! Did Don Lemon say that?
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posted on
01/29/2020 4:35:14 AM PST
by
TheRake
To: BenLurkin
I would still need a light sweater
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posted on
01/29/2020 4:43:05 AM PST
by
ZinGirl
(Now a grandma ....can't afford a tagline :))
To: SunkenCiv
26 miles?
That would be a neat trick....................
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posted on
01/29/2020 6:23:23 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.......... ..)
To: SunkenCiv
Should have called it Icarus...................
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posted on
01/29/2020 6:24:25 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.......... ..)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
01/29/2020 6:25:35 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.......... ..)
To: BenLurkin
Hey Ben, that’s supposed to be 26 million miles, not 26 miles.....LOL!
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posted on
01/29/2020 6:44:32 AM PST
by
Hot Tabasco
(I want an impeachment pen)
To: Hot Tabasco
What’s a million or so among friends and an infinite universe?
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posted on
01/29/2020 6:45:28 AM PST
by
Reily
To: Campion
more reliable than the Daily Mail its a bit over 26 MILLION miles, not 26 miles.
The daily mail is correct, the poster is not........sheesh!
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posted on
01/29/2020 6:46:43 AM PST
by
Hot Tabasco
(I want an impeachment pen)
To: BenLurkin
‘Massive Yellow Dwarf Star’? Is that like Jumbo Shrimp?
Should be called Icarus, of course.
As for the distance, at 26 million, there isn’t much of an atmosphere of the Sun at that range,so, the particles will be VERY hot, there just won’t be a lot of them.
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posted on
01/29/2020 8:10:00 AM PST
by
Conan the Librarian
(The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
To: BenLurkin
AH - NO.
You can get 900F in your backyard with torches or welders.
Try over 9000F that close to the sun. Some ignorant “journalist” is leaving out some zeroes somewhere. Took me 15 seconds to check that temp in Google. Somebody needs to be slapped on the hand.
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posted on
01/29/2020 8:40:59 AM PST
by
HeadOn
(Love God. Lead your family. Be a man.)
To: irishjuggler
Ah, thank you. I’m no astrophysicist, but my gut instinct when I read this was that, 26 miles out from the sun, withstanding “temperatures over 900 degrees Fahrenheit” is a woefully inadequate joke. Good instinct. At that distance the corona is about a million degrees C. Much hotter than the surface of the sun itself.
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posted on
01/29/2020 8:50:11 AM PST
by
zeugma
(I sure wish I lived in a country where the rule of law actually applied to those in power.)
To: oldvirginian
Twenty-six miles across the sea
Santa Catalina is a-waitin' for me...
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posted on
01/29/2020 9:41:56 AM PST
by
Buckeye McFrog
(Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
To: Buckeye McFrog
It’s twenty five miles from home
Girl, my feet are hurting mighty bad
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posted on
01/29/2020 9:43:04 AM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Red Badger
Hey, they didn’t say it was comin’ back... ;^)
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posted on
01/29/2020 11:29:51 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: dfwgator
25 miles from the surface of the sun? I should think so.
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posted on
01/29/2020 11:50:58 AM PST
by
Buckeye McFrog
(Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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