A new spacecraft set to launch this weekend is going to be travelling closer to the top of the Sun (what’s that?)than ever before on a special mission to photograph the star, according to NASA.
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The mission, run in collaboration with the European Space Agency , is aimed at learning more about solar winds, according to Paul Delaney, professor of Physics and Astronomy at York University. Satellite systems are responsible for GPS, cellphone service, TV signals and even search and rescue coordination, so it’s no small matter if a satellite is impacted by solar winds.
“You take out the satellites of this planet, and yours and I’s lives would be very different. You’d be thrown back 100 years. Personally, I like my current existence of technology.”“Most of the probes that we launch in our solar system stay in what we call the ecliptic plane – so in the same plane that the Earth orbits around the sun,” Delaney explained. “To get out of that plane requires a lot of energy.
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