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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: astronomy; icarus; polarorbit; science; solarorbiter; sun
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To: BenLurkin

Same distance as Santa Catalina.


61 posted on 01/28/2020 6:31:48 PM PST by Ken H
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To: BenLurkin

To keep from burning up, it’ll go there at night.


62 posted on 01/28/2020 6:31:53 PM PST by beethovenfan (Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: PghBaldy

Even at 26 million miles...

Your post gave me reason to pull this up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kesio4k-dMU

Somehow, playing it, that tune then seemed appropriate as a requiem for the 9 people on Kobe Bryant’s helicopter, and most anyone else who’s passed in an aircraft that’s come down, too.

(Sorry to wander OT!)


63 posted on 01/28/2020 6:32:43 PM PST by Paul R. (The Lib / Socialist goal: Total control of nothing left worth controlling.)
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To: SkyDancer

Goes at night!


64 posted on 01/28/2020 6:35:43 PM PST by Reily
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

This

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshine_(2007_film)

A scientifically ignorant about the sun film. Earth expedition to turn the sun back on with a bunch of H bombs. However if you can get past that (Its hard but I managed!) Its a good psychological thriller!


65 posted on 01/28/2020 6:39:55 PM PST by Reily
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To: BenLurkin

Me thinks the headline means 26 MILLION miles, not 26 miles.


66 posted on 01/28/2020 6:42:35 PM PST by JaguarXKE (Liberalism is a cancer on our nation.)
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To: BenLurkin

The article at the link says 26 million miles.


67 posted on 01/28/2020 6:43:31 PM PST by al_c (Democrats: Party over Common Sense)
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To: Ken H

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1I7zMKptjRs


68 posted on 01/28/2020 6:50:32 PM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: BenLurkin

I don’t see how any man made object can survive a 26 mile brush with the sun. Twenty-six thousand miles, perhaps.


69 posted on 01/28/2020 6:53:04 PM PST by Windflier (Torches and pitchforks ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: eyedigress
I thought that was Mars?

Wrong turn at Albuquerque. It happens.

70 posted on 01/28/2020 6:54:14 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: BenLurkin

Nuclear fusion is in the millions of degrees. 900 is for burnt toast


71 posted on 01/28/2020 6:54:21 PM PST by vigilante2 (Make liberals cry again)
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To: al_c

Thanks. I had to look it up for reference - the moon is about 240,000 miles from the earth. Mars is 184 million miles from earth.


72 posted on 01/28/2020 7:00:59 PM PST by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful!)
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To: BenLurkin

That’s 26 million miles, not 26 miles, for crying out loud. Please proofread your headlines, people.


73 posted on 01/28/2020 7:01:07 PM PST by Technical Editor
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To: 21twelve

Oh, and Mercury is 33.5 million miles from the sun.

Only two space craft have explored Mercury.


74 posted on 01/28/2020 7:05:24 PM PST by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful!)
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"Have you ever been to the Sun?!?...


75 posted on 01/28/2020 7:18:24 PM PST by EEGator
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To: BenLurkin
"Thanks for taking me, on a one-way trip to the Sun..."


76 posted on 01/28/2020 7:25:19 PM PST by fidelis (Zonie and USAF Cold Warrior)
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To: Malsua
The number is most likely to be 26 MILLION miles.

Well, the media never were very good with space and numbers.


77 posted on 01/28/2020 7:30:31 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Gender-based outcomes don't matter if gender doesn't.)
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To: al_c
They corrected it.

I took a before and after screenshot.

78 posted on 01/28/2020 7:42:52 PM PST by yesthatjallen
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To: tet68

Yea, I’m thinking the same thing....the figures can’t be right.


79 posted on 01/28/2020 7:45:01 PM PST by caww
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To: BenLurkin

Did they name the spacecraft “Icarus”?


80 posted on 01/28/2020 7:45:46 PM PST by minnesota_bound (homeless guy. He just has more money....He the master will plant more cotton for the democrat party)
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