What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

[drmorgans]

 

Remember Icarus is all I'm saying:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9q7lnyw25wo

 

[Cloverjo]

That's amazing. I hope it all goes well. 

[drmorgans]

 

The fastest man-made object, 425,000 mph.

Outside temperature, 1,500c, and then there's the radiation.

Our own star, yet there's so much we don't know about it.

 

[rockyracoon]

I suppose the boundaries have to be tested to move on.

[drmorgans]

 

Not sure about boundaries, but knowledge and understanding.

 

[rockyracoon]

I suppose that's what I meant.

[rowanwitch]

I think it's more a case of what has to go right for it to be successful.  The images if we get any back should be amazing

[drmorgans]

 

It takes about 9 minutes for the Sun's light to reach us, Parker was launched 7 years ago.

 

[drmorgans]

 

Parker has texted to tell the folks he's okay:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgrwdxpljyxo

 

[THECORBYLOON]

I heard an expert on about it the other day saying the temperature would be about 1,000°C and the material used to make the probe could withstand 1,400°C.

I thought at the time that given the cost of the probe, they might have made it a lot more heat-resistant.

[drmorgans]

 

Cost, weight, duration of mission, a balancing act.

 

[Peter Pedant]

Oh ! is the probe called icarus?

[drmorgans]

 

No, Parker, after Eugene Parker, a US solar scientist.

 

[Cloverjo]

Great to see it achieved their goal.

Mind-boggling, really.