"While not a hard edge, or a "wall" as it has sometimes been called, here both spacecraft measured temperatures of 30,000-50,000 kelvin (54,000-90,000 degrees Fahrenheit), which is why it is sometimes also referred to as a "wall of fire". The craft survived the wall as, though the particles they measured were extremely energetic, the chances of collision in this particle-sparse region of space are so low that not enough heat could be transferred to the duo."
Also, worth noting that these temperatures are not that high as far as plasmas go. This is 3-5 eV, which is firmly in the "low temperature" regime (like a fluorescent bulb).
This isn't strange at all, but rather an artifact of the nature of heat energy in a medium. Heat is the uncorrelated movement of particles that evens out to zero effective velocity. Temperature is the measure of the velocity magnitude of these individual particles. This is independent of the medium's density.
I'm just a layperson, but I'd suspect the research is sound.
I hate the telephone tag, livescience.com-type journalism. Instead, I'd love to read an abstract and methods. The research must talk about this in detail and explain how the conclusions are reached. It probably isn't too inaccessible.
I suspect that there may be many such measurements correlated between both probes taken against some other baseline signal or an observed return to the mean.
I value good content, or maybe it's not even that good, but it's valuable. I appreciate paying people for their time to make things that teach me new things.
My son and I watched the launch video where they sent it up to space. Highly recommend watching that with whoever you're going to take the selfie with!
Prompt box does not show on mobile. I'm using brave on Android. Even when I request the desktop site it does not show it. But when I use brave on Mac it does show it.
This was a confusing landing for me on a mobile device.
article doesn't mention if it does, does not
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