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22GB worth. No dissemination yet. Stay tuned to find out whether the Sun is hot or not....
NASA's probe to the SUN sends back data...
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Or if the dark side is bright
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First thing i did was check if this was in jokes, funny stuff section.
Before i even looked at the post.
Before i even looked at the post.
22GB worth. No dissemination yet. Stay tuned to find out whether the Sun is hot or not....
Just on pins and needles waiting to hear the news if the sun is hot . . . Or not so hot
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Never know with this stuff. We may find a way to recognize dangerous sun storms sooner.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_storm_of_1859
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_storm_of_1859
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I expect they will put up the results after copious analyzation...
NASA just received a major data dump from its mission to ‘Touch the Sun’
Mike Wehner
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/ga...-a-surprise-ending/ss-AAFnbY8?ocid=spartandhp
We’re rapidly approaching the one-year anniversary of the launch of NASA’s much-hyped mission to “Touch the Sun” with its Parker Solar Probe. The spacecraft is breaking records left and right, but NASA didn’t fire the probe at our nearest star just to impress us.
© Provided by Penske Media Corporation illustration_of_parker_solar_probe
The success of the mission will ultimately depend on the data it sends back.
The nature of sending data through space — and the fact that the Parker Solar Probe has to take nice long trips around the Sun — means that data can’t be streamed back as it’s collected. Instead, the probe has to send back its observations in chunks, and it just wrapped up its first major data dump.
As NASA explains in a new post, collecting data from a spacecraft so close to the Sun poses some unique challenges. As you can imagine, relaying data when the spacecraft is out of Earth’s line-of-sight is a no-go, but even when the probe is on “our” side of the Sun, radiation from the star can overwhelm the signal.
The good news is that the probe’s communication system is performing well, and actually exceeding the expectations set during pre-launch testing. Because of that, the probe has managed to transfer a whopping 22 GB worth of data from its first two close passes of the Sun, which is 50 percent more than scientists planned on having by this point in the mission.
“All of the expected science data collected through the first and second encounters is now on the ground,” Nickalaus Pinkine, Parker Solar Probe mission operations manager, said in a statement.
“As we learned more about operating in this environment and these orbits, the team did a great job of increasing data downloads of the information gathered by the spacecraft’s amazing instruments.”
As exciting as this is, there’s still plenty of work left to do. The mission is only about a year into a planned mission timeline of nearly seven years. As the probe gets closer and closer to the Sun it will continue to relay data and, NASA hopes, teach us some new and interesting things about our star.
NASA just received a major data dump from its mission to ‘Touch the Sun’
Mike Wehner
13 hrs ago
https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/ga...-a-surprise-ending/ss-AAFnbY8?ocid=spartandhp
We’re rapidly approaching the one-year anniversary of the launch of NASA’s much-hyped mission to “Touch the Sun” with its Parker Solar Probe. The spacecraft is breaking records left and right, but NASA didn’t fire the probe at our nearest star just to impress us.
The success of the mission will ultimately depend on the data it sends back.
The nature of sending data through space — and the fact that the Parker Solar Probe has to take nice long trips around the Sun — means that data can’t be streamed back as it’s collected. Instead, the probe has to send back its observations in chunks, and it just wrapped up its first major data dump.
As NASA explains in a new post, collecting data from a spacecraft so close to the Sun poses some unique challenges. As you can imagine, relaying data when the spacecraft is out of Earth’s line-of-sight is a no-go, but even when the probe is on “our” side of the Sun, radiation from the star can overwhelm the signal.
The good news is that the probe’s communication system is performing well, and actually exceeding the expectations set during pre-launch testing. Because of that, the probe has managed to transfer a whopping 22 GB worth of data from its first two close passes of the Sun, which is 50 percent more than scientists planned on having by this point in the mission.
“All of the expected science data collected through the first and second encounters is now on the ground,” Nickalaus Pinkine, Parker Solar Probe mission operations manager, said in a statement.
“As we learned more about operating in this environment and these orbits, the team did a great job of increasing data downloads of the information gathered by the spacecraft’s amazing instruments.”
As exciting as this is, there’s still plenty of work left to do. The mission is only about a year into a planned mission timeline of nearly seven years. As the probe gets closer and closer to the Sun it will continue to relay data and, NASA hopes, teach us some new and interesting things about our star.
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They should go at night .......
They should go at night .......
...yep....it would be cooler.
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They should go at night .......
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I wonder how many (100's of) thousands of mile away ?
it actually was, before it just burned up,
now a blob of interstellar molten debris
it actually was, before it just burned up,
now a blob of interstellar molten debris
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I wonder how many (100's of) thousands of mile away ?
it actually was, before it just burned up,
now a blob of interstellar molten debris
That would have been cool to see as a selfie of the ship. See how close is Hollywood's conception of a melting craft hurtling into the Sun
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It's still going for another 6 + years...getting closer and closer each pass. it has sent back data from the first two passes. Not the first anniversary yet..
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22GB worth. No dissemination yet. Stay tuned to find out whether the Sun is hot or not....
NASA
We still can not send a Man in space (Or a Woman)
We pay the Russians $26 million dollars per ride per person
Who is running that Clown Outfit
(And be advised, we have the Dryden Flight Test Center here at Edwards...now called Armstrong)
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If they didn't name the probe "Icarus" they missed a good opportunity.
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I want to know what the thing is coated with to keep it from igniting...?
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They launched it at nigh time!
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