Craig Mayhew’s Blog

Yeaa! NASA has put together a mission to fly a space probe into the atmosphere of the sun in 2022. Well, it will actually be orbiting the sun and so won’t just go hurtling into it. It will orbit at over 200km/s at a distance of 7 million km from the sun. It’s protection will be in the form of a heat shield that will prevent the 2000 degree heat from damaging the prob.

Time dilation over a 100 year period at 200km/s, you gain:

702 seconds.

You may also have noticed this is twice as close as I thought possible in my previous post on time dilation.

Sources:
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2010/02sep_spp/
http://solarprobe.jhuapl.edu/funFacts.php

After doing some searching I’ve found there are a number of other Craig Mayhew’s out there. If your one of them then please leave a comment and introduce yourself! If you’ve got a site that you would like me to direct people to then I’ll put a link on my home page so people can find you easily.

I’ve found a few people named Craig Mayhew already. Here’s the list:

Nasa – Craig Mayhew

Broadcaster/Producer – Craig Mayhew