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The Parker Solar Probe is super cool. It's the fastest ever macro man made object, and will go even faster during its closest pass next year. It's also the man
by calgarymicro 2y ago
The Parker Solar Probe is super cool. It's the fastest ever macro man made object, and will go even faster during its closest pass next year. It's also the man made object that's experienced the highest rate of time dilation relative to Earth; during its most recent close pass it was losing around 1000 seconds (~17 minutes) per hundred years due to its speed and proximity to the sun.
- techdragon 2y agoThis is probably adding some interesting data processing steps in a few scientists work… you don’t normally have to adjust for a changing time dilation, but between the change in speed passing through the orbit, and the number of seconds being lost, there’s probably a few instruments where they have to account for the difference in the data over the course of each orbit!