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Going to the Sun at night looks a bit counter-intuitive. I hope the scientists have everything covered. Godspeed.
by ainiriand 7y ago
Going to the Sun at night looks a bit counter-intuitive. I hope the scientists have everything covered. Godspeed.
- rbanffy 7y agoThey'll reach it after sunrise, duh ;-) or... This way it doesn't get too hot and the probe can have less thermal isolation.
- arethuza 7y agoOn BBC Radio 4 this morning a scientist (presumably from the ESA team) mentioned that the thermal protection is so effective that some of the instruments have heaters to keep them warm enough.
- rbanffy 7y ago> the thermal protection is so effective that some of the instruments have heaters to keep them warm enough That's very impressive.
- nkrisc 7y agoIt would be much easier to image it when it settles down in Flagstaff, AZ every night.
- implements 7y agoWell they were already +1 by choosing to go in Winter, when it's colder.
- cosmolev 7y agoThere is an old Soviet-Russian anecdote: Brezhnev invites a group of cosmonauts. - Comrades! The Americans have landed on the Moon. We have conferred and decided that you would fly to the Sun! - But we'd burn down there, Leonid Il'ich! - Don't worry! The Party has thought it all through. You will fly at night!