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NASA To Explore "Secret Layer" of the Sun
SpaceAdmiral brings news that NASA will be launching a telescope next April, called Solar Ultraviolet Magnetograph Investigation (SUMI), which will examine what is called the "transition region" between the Sun's corona and the chromosphere. Scientists have studied characteristics of the Sun around this region before, but never within it. NASA notes:
"It is a place in the sun's atmosphere, about 5000 km above the stellar surface, where magnetic fields overwhelm the pressure of matter and seize control of the sun's gases. It's where solar flares explode, where coronal mass ejections begin their journey to Earth, where the solar wind is mysteriously accelerated to a million mph. It is, in short, the birthplace of space weather."
It is a telescope, they're not launching something to the sun.
I was going to say they should go at night.
Sun: Welcome to my secret layer, Mr Powers, I've been expecting you.
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They filter out all light and suddenly discover there's a gigantic EULA on the surface of the sun?
How did they do that? The Sun is hot... but they put ice cream in it! WOW!
Sounds like a Michael Bay film. "Bruce Willis heads a nighttime mission to the Sun to drill for oil." Come on do you really think anyone in Hollywood was awake during science class?
Where is Doctor Evil's Secret Volcano Layer?
Mother, do you think they'll like this sig?
Maybe they should just invent metaphasic shielding?
(And for the guy who thought SPF was a trollish reference, behold)
The cat's out the bag now, boys ... no longer a secret
:-)
aw, what the hell - am drunk anyway, taking me longer than 20 minutes to type this out
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Doesn't matter as long as I don't have to be you.
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To access the Secret Sun Layer, you must first kill Baal. After you have killed Baal (making sure the quest has been completed), you can access the Secret Sun Layer.
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"It is a place in the sun's atmosphere, about 5000 km above the stellar surface, where magnetic fields overwhelm the pressure of matter and seize control of the sun's gases. It's where solar flares explode, where coronal mass ejections begin their journey to Earth, where the solar wind is mysteriously accelerated to a million mph. It is, in short, the birthplace of space weather."
Did anyone else get aroused reading the summary?
I don't know about the rest of you, but the sun gets me pretty hot.
If this signature is witty enough, maybe somebody will like me.
I wonder if they will be able to get some more high resolution images like:
High resolution image of Solar Granulation
And some animations: Sun spot #1 Sun spot #2
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They'll turn out to be the C'tan, and we all know what that leads to! Necrons!
It is, in short, the birthplace of solar weather.
Fixed that for you.
to show evidence for secret lair of the Sun.
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
The Surface of the Sun. Viewed using a 171 angstrom filter, the sun appears to actually have a solid surface beneath the gas layers. It also seems to be electrically active. This is one of the more fascinating astronomy sites I've seen, mainly because they don't seem to start with a bias of "what we know can't be so". That always appeals to me, especially since "what we know is 100% impossible" is something that's been proven wrong, again and again, although that doesn't seem to stop anyone from asserting that this time we really have it right.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. - Einstein
It seems like every time the brains at NASA send out a new multi-gazillion dollar probe to investigate something, they always say that "this research will give us clues as to the origin of life"
Personally, I think it's code-speak for "we just think this is fscking cool, but we need to justify spending gazillion bucks"
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How did Slashdot find out about the "secret" layer of the sun I JUST Blogged it on my "A-Space" page 10 minutes ago! it's SEECUREE!
Only if I can be Gordon.
Shame on you, you made me snarf up my Marshmallow Twirls and Diet Coke!
Impetuous! Homeric!
Sounds like someone needs some beano.
I vote we send Jim Cantore of the Weather Channel instead, he seems to be where all the weather action is these days....
Impetuous! Homeric!
It would be interesting to see if this supports the electric universe theory, that the sun is not powered by gravity fusion, but is instead a giant Plasma Lamp. The purpose of the probe is to measure magnetic field lines of the sun from earth's low orbit, and perhaps it can travel far enough in its 8 minutes to detect the radial field lines that the EU theories say must exist...
I hope ithe mission is not at the peak of the Sunspot cycle, as their space vehicle will be turned into individual atoms floating in space.
but i get the crowbar!
Areas like this are where NASA should be spending more of their resources to bridge the gap between the time when more grand expeditions (Moonbase, Mars) will become more economically feasible. I'm not saying we shouldn't go, but a trillion here and a trillion there tends to add up fast.
That trillion dollar Mars mission GWB suggested a few years ago disappeared down the toilet faster than a lead burrito.
We can receive much pure and applied science from projects such as this per dollar spent than we could from manned spaceflight. We can't say "Well done, NASA." since it's not until next April, but it's out there waiting for you when you do.
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i have proof!
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... that there are actually active areas for them to see next April during their 8 minutes of telescope activity. This solar minimum has been very quiet and long-lasting.
"I'm so moist I'm sticking to the leather." -Kermit the Frog on The Late Late Show
disappeared down the toilet faster than a lead burrito
I don't have much personal experience with lead burritos (none, actually), but I think it won't make it round the bend. So it will just sit there at the bottom, never quite going away.
And THERE you are 100% correct - it's a project that will never quite die. There will always be someone who'll resurrect it for a few weeks, like a zombie, with many (returning to your analogy) flushing for all it's worth.
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