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US space agency plans solar probe
[ 2008-06-13 09:43 ]

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The U.S. space agency is planning to send a probe to the sun to gather data and shed light on basic questions about how the star operates and its effects on Earth. VOA's Michael Bowman reports from Washington, the initiative entails numerous technological challenges that will test the skill and ingenuity of engineers assigned to the project.

It is the brightest, most prominent feature of our sky, yet in many ways the sun is shrouded in mystery.

"We have never had a voyage to a star. We do not know what it does up close, next to its visible surface. And we do not know the [sun's] physical processes very well," said Richard Fisher, who heads NASA's Heliophysics Division, the body responsible for studying the sun.

Among the questions that have long-stumped researchers: how can it be that the sun's outer atmosphere, the corona, is hundreds of times hotter than the star's surface? What force is responsible for solar winds - the stream of charged particles contributing to geo-magnetic storms that affect electrical and communications systems on earth - given that no organized wind has been detected at the sun's surface?

To get some answers, NASA hopes to launch a probe weighing about half a ton into the sun's atmosphere to measure the magnetic field, sense plasma waves, and analyze particles emitted from the star. A telescopic imager will take three-dimensional pictures of the corona.

"We are going to go close to a star. It is going to be very hot. There is a technological issue of how you generate power; there is a lot of sunlight, but you cannot use all of it. There is a technical problem of how you shield the payload from all the radiance. And then you have to transmit data halfway across the solar system, almost," Fisher said.

Planners envision a carbon-composite heat shield that will have to withstand temperatures in excess of 1,400 degrees Celsius and survive massive radiation blasts. As one might expect, the craft will be solar-powered with retractable liquid-cooled solar panels.

NASA chose the Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Lab to design and build the probe.

Project Manager Andrew Dantzler says he relishes the unprecedented engineering challenges facing his team.

"It really is a convolution of technologies that have advanced over the last several years: high-temperature materials, more-efficient solar arrays. It is technology like that that have made this [project] possible," he said.

Dantzler says, when the probe is launched, perhaps as early as 2015, it will constitute the fulfillment of a goal that astronomers and other scientists set forth decades ago.

"This idea goes all the way back to the beginning of the space age. In 1958, the National Research Council first introduced the concept of sending a probe close to the sun. But it is only recently that we have come up with the optimal way of doing that kind of mission."

NASA says, for now, the solar probe mission is an entirely U.S. endeavor, but that space agencies of other nations have expressed an interest in the project and that collaboration would be welcomed.

NASA says, not only will the probe generate information that could prove valuable in predicting solar storms that interrupt electrical systems on Earth, the craft could potentially serve as an early-warning system for solar activity that might affect future human space travel.

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