Mercury Flyby 1 |
Mercury Flyby 1 |
Dec 5 2007, 06:47 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 258 Joined: 22-December 06 Member No.: 1503 |
40 days and counting. The long wait is almost over!
I wonder whether we will get enough data to test new simulation theories like this one. http://space.newscientist.com/article/mg19...solar-wind.html What do you expect from this first flyby? |
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Jan 15 2008, 10:19 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 356 Joined: 12-March 05 Member No.: 190 |
Well its not the sun, that's for sure. http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/sunspots/ three probes going into safe mode at the same time seems highly improbable. My money is on a very large GRB.
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Jan 15 2008, 10:23 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3648 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
Maybe it's actually perfectly "normal" that 3 spacecraft can enter safe mode at any given time, due to the (let's admit it) large number of them currently active. The difference is, most of the time there's nothing big happening so we tend to never hear about all those safe modes.
Or... this could really be something out of the ordinary... A sign of global warming? *ducks* gcecil, can 5 million year orbital lifetimes really be regarded as stable, compared to timescales of solar system history? -------------------- |
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Jan 16 2008, 02:36 AM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 16 Joined: 8-August 07 Member No.: 3138 |
Maybe it's actually perfectly "normal" that 3 spacecraft can enter safe mode at any given time, due to the (let's admit it) large number of them currently active. The difference is, most of the time there's nothing big happening so we tend to never hear about all those safe modes. Or... this could really be something out of the ordinary... A sign of global warming? *ducks* gcecil, can 5 million year orbital lifetimes really be regarded as stable, compared to timescales of solar system history? 30 million Mercury years. All depends on the flux of stuff that might accumulate. |
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