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Bad Idea of the Day: Deciding to go grocery shopping and schlep home a heavy load...immediately after donating blood. Cue nearly fainting on the pavement!
AWESOME THING OF THE DAY: THE SOLAR ORBITER MISSION HAS BEEN SELECTED BY ESA.
YESSSSS WE ARE GOING TO THE SUN WITH MAGNETOMETERS AND ELECTRON ANALYSERS AND OTHER SCIENCEY GIZMOS AND WE WILL FIGURE OUT HOW IT WORKS HO YES WE WILL
* He's ours (Space Physics)! Bouncy Tim!
AWESOME THING OF THE DAY: THE SOLAR ORBITER MISSION HAS BEEN SELECTED BY ESA.
"Solar Orbiter is not so much about taking high-resolution pictures of the Sun, although we'll get those; it's about getting close and joining up what happens on the Sun with what happens in space," explained Tim Horbury from Imperial College London* and one of Solar Orbiter's lead scientists.
"The solar wind and coronal mass ejections - these big releases of material coming off the Sun; we don't know precisely where they're coming from, and precisely how they're generated. Solar Orbiter can help us understand that."
YESSSSS WE ARE GOING TO THE SUN WITH MAGNETOMETERS AND ELECTRON ANALYSERS AND OTHER SCIENCEY GIZMOS AND WE WILL FIGURE OUT HOW IT WORKS HO YES WE WILL
* He's ours (Space Physics)! Bouncy Tim!
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I do not pretend to understand physics (although I like looking at the pretty pictures) but I love science; the whole principle that we can understand (most of) the universe if we just try hard enough.
I'm looking forward to the results already. ::G::
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Yay on the mission!!!
(And yay for a partial Aussie (Brian Schmidt) winning the Nobel prize for Physics)
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