Wir sind dabei, zum ersten Mal eine Raumsonde in die Sonne zu fliegen
https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/12/were-about-to-fly-a-spacecraft-into-the-sun-for-the-first-time/
Wir sind dabei, zum ersten Mal eine Raumsonde in die Sonne zu fliegen
https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/12/were-about-to-fly-a-spacecraft-into-the-sun-for-the-first-time/
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…endure temperatures in excess of 2,500° Fahrenheit (1,371° C) on Christmas Eve, which is pretty much the polar opposite of the North Pole.
Um, no it isn’t. That’d be the South Pole, and even with warming, still not quite that hot.
I doubt it will get very close but it will be interesting to follow
A Soviet joke from 1969:
Brezhnev gets a call from one of his ministers:
“Leonid Ilyich, the Americans have just flown to the Moon.”
“Well, that’s ok. We’ll fly to the Sun, then.”
“But, Leonid Ilyich, it’s too hot on the Sun!”
“Do you take me for an idiot? We’ll do it at night!”
It’s shockingly difficult to hit the sun with a rocket. You would think you can just aim in the general direction and let gravity do the rest but due to earth’s orbital velocity around the sun, it’s not that simple. It surprisingly takes MORE energy to fly into the sun than it does to escape its gravity entirely (starting from Earth).
Without looking at the article first, it just **has** to be named „Icarus.“
Edit: sigh — „Parker Solar Probe“ — I was SO close…
“Why the hell is it eating up all the satellites?”
Mama always told me not to look into the eyes of the Sun
Great. Now some genius is going to pop a hole in the sun. I can just hear the farting noise as it flies around the galaxy deflating.
If they wait until nighttime it might be cool enough to land on the sun.