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- digitalArtform, on 04/25/2009, -3/+125Pro Tip:
To keep your craft from melting, go at night. - ryan83189, on 04/26/2009, -14/+47That idea shows your lack of knowledge of space. Obviously NASA is more interested on the sun when it is shining and doing all of the cool stuff.
- Elude107, on 04/26/2009, -0/+18Make sure solar zombies from the last mission don't ***** it up.
- h0ser, on 04/26/2009, -4/+20Call it Icarus and build it's wings of wax.
- cerejota, on 04/26/2009, -0/+10Solar Probe Plus:
http://solarprobe.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Solar Orbiter:
http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/area/index.cfm?fa ...
This has a lot of win within. It puts the "awe" back in "awesome"! - guinpen, on 04/26/2009, -1/+114.3 million miles has never sounded like such a small distance.
- zaferk, on 04/26/2009, -2/+12This baby can take temperatures up to 9000 degrees!
- Laughingman42, on 04/26/2009, -1/+9I hope they build a colony there. Think of all the free energy you can get living on the sun!
- michaelphw, on 04/26/2009, -0/+8"Where temperatures are hot enough to melt metal and intense radiation along with chaotic magnetic fields can tear manmade structures apart. "
I don't think this sentence really puts forth the intensity of what the Sun can actually do.. - FDisk, on 04/26/2009, -2/+9srsly? your irony detector is broke?
- guinpen, on 04/26/2009, -1/+7i have sudden deja vu that tells me that's a bad idea
- inactive, on 04/26/2009, -2/+8I was instantly reminded of http://theslackerz.com/Comics/045.gif
- JakeBC, on 04/26/2009, -0/+6FTA "Once in orbit, it will circle the Sun every 150 years"
I'm sure my Great Grandchildren will be thrilled with this. - centran, on 04/26/2009, -1/+7um... I hope you mean the "skin" or hull of the spacecraft and don't think they are actually sending humans there.
To try to answer your question, the orbiter will orbit the sun but stay a safe distance so its heavily heat shielded hull will not melt.
The probe will be covered in carbon foam which will hopefully allow it to survive for a little while while it enters the sun. The probe is being purposefully sacrificed to gather as much info until it burns up. I am not sure how long they plan the orbiter to last. - Torx, on 04/26/2009, -1/+7A little something for your Sunday viewing after reading the article.
"Sunshine" (2007)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0448134/ - RandomGorilla, on 04/26/2009, -1/+6Don't forget to bring the hotdogs and marshmallows!
And an epic amount of bacon!! Let's fill the entire solar system with the smell of frying bacon! - JBrown99, on 04/26/2009, -2/+7The sun is a mass of incandescent gas, a gigantic nuclear furnace, where hydrogen is built into helium at a temperature of millions of degrees.
The extent of my knowledge of the sun comes from TMBG. - getjustin, on 04/26/2009, -1/+6That will only give you about 12 hours of relief from the heat. Oyu really need to go during winter. That way you have 3 months or so....
- inactive, on 04/26/2009, -0/+5You want NASA to focus on fixing the economy?
In the meantime, you might as well ask National Geographic and Scientific American for financial tips and tax advice. - mikemehak, on 04/26/2009, -0/+4It's complicated technology, but it involves a show box, a pin hole, some duct tape and tin foil.
- skatiN64, on 04/26/2009, -0/+4even though it got ridiculous I still ***** love that movie
- FlyByWire91, on 04/26/2009, -0/+3Think practically people! This would never work. The only way to do this is to leave during a Solar Eclipse!
- josh22, on 04/26/2009, -0/+3SPF 9000.....and lots of it.
- Kstha1, on 04/26/2009, -0/+3I have a feeling they will have problems with this mission..
- sanman, on 04/26/2009, -0/+3ISRO will also be launching Aditya into a sun-synchronous orbit in 2012, to study the sun:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aditya_(space_craft) - guinpen, on 04/26/2009, -0/+3this is the boring part of the mission. once it's over, they'll move on to macbeth
- inactive, on 04/26/2009, -0/+3I used to think, when I was little, that because sunspots were the "coolest" parts of the sun, humans would be able to build "houses" on the sun. :3
- jamdogg, on 04/26/2009, -0/+3The sun is the equivalent energy output of 90 Billion H-bombs detonating per second. If you're going any nearer to it than earth - may the force be with you.
- wibambau, on 04/26/2009, -0/+3"That's hot."
- TVarmy, on 04/26/2009, -0/+3That'll jinx it. If they want it to last that long, it'll die in 3 months due to a mundane software error.
- TonyCubed, on 04/26/2009, -0/+3Nahh, landing on Mars and sending probes into space is a lot more fun! <3
- jpl7986, on 04/26/2009, -0/+3...or they could always go during the winter when the sun is cold...
- maz2331, on 04/26/2009, -0/+3More like "vaporize any known material".
- maz2331, on 04/26/2009, -0/+3Every 150 years? That would put it somewhere around Neptune's orbit.
- yujie, on 04/26/2009, -0/+2Have they not learn from the movie SunShine?
- TVarmy, on 04/26/2009, -0/+2Only if you launch from Alaska, you big dummy.
- josh22, on 04/26/2009, -0/+2I don't think astronauts will be going.
- inactive, on 04/26/2009, -1/+3The NASA scientists' parents wouldn't spend an extra $30 on the Solar Probe Plus Silver Edition.
- Myztry, on 04/26/2009, -0/+2/me puts tinfoil on head and stares suspiciously at box...
- TVarmy, on 04/26/2009, -0/+2Metasarcasm, what a wonderful time to be alive...
- josh22, on 04/26/2009, -0/+2Professor Richard Harrison=Captain Obvious
- Pixelante, on 04/26/2009, -2/+4Nope. They've got it covered. They'll land at night.
- Iwantawii, on 04/26/2009, -1/+3"The Sun influences us in many ways and is central to life on Earth," said Professor Richard Harrison, a solar scientist at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.
durrrrrrrrr - Myztry, on 04/26/2009, -0/+2Or an extremely darkened filter so the Sun appears like it does way back on Earth...
- Suzilla, on 04/26/2009, -0/+2RIght. Besides ... they'll probably go a night, when it's cooler. :P
- Suzilla, on 04/26/2009, -0/+2NO!! That'll attract the Rigelians ... and you KNOW how they like to hog the kegs.
- josh22, on 04/26/2009, -0/+2Why would it take 150 years for the orbiter to circle when its only 4.3 million miles from the sun and it only takes the earth a year at about 91 million miles? And then they only expect it to last only 6 years. That means it will only make 1/25 of an orbit. Seems kind of pointless. That has to be a typo.
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