Re:All chips are protected on a craft like this!
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No shit sherlock, that was my point.
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Oops, my bad. I was thinking "photons" and assumed gamma ray / no particle. However, secondary interaction with the spacecraft and its shielding produces gamma of VERY high energy (thousands of MeV possible) => penetrating radiation.
(next time I'll refresh my rusty memory on a subject before injecting my two cents;)
Re:All chips are protected on a craft like this!
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In answer to your comment:
Yes, of course there is shielding to protect instrumentation...and it's not perfect. Cosmic rays are RAYS not particles, and it's entirely possible to a few to slip by. In fact, they do.
As for a series of pictures, a CCD by definition can become saturated for a time; similar to your eye after looking at a bright object, then looking away. This could explain how one ray or packet of rays could cause this phenomena.
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No shit sherlock, that was my point.
Oops, my bad. I was thinking "photons" and assumed gamma ray / no particle. However, secondary interaction with the spacecraft and its shielding produces gamma of VERY high energy (thousands of MeV possible) => penetrating radiation. (next time I'll refresh my rusty memory on a subject before injecting my two cents ;)
In answer to your comment: Yes, of course there is shielding to protect instrumentation...and it's not perfect. Cosmic rays are RAYS not particles, and it's entirely possible to a few to slip by. In fact, they do. As for a series of pictures, a CCD by definition can become saturated for a time; similar to your eye after looking at a bright object, then looking away. This could explain how one ray or packet of rays could cause this phenomena.