One more an important distinction for a Greek scientist adds to many that have been done in recent times in many fields of science and research
Thousands of kilometers away from us, right now, a man-made spaceship is circling him Helium with speed 600.000 kilometers per hour while thanks to a heat shield built by engineers that can withstand a temperature of one million degrees Celsius, scientists are performing experiments at… room temperature. An exciting period of exploration of the star of the solar system has begun in recent years, an effort with Greek participation that in recent days has been awarded by the NASA.
"This is incredible technology. The Parker Solar Probe and the Solar Orbiter are two new spacecraft thanks to which humanity "touches" the sun closer than ever. The NASA's Parker Solar Probe launched on August 4, 2018 and constantly makes an orbit like a "loop" around the sun. Each time it makes another such loop, the loop goes closer, so Parker without crashing into the Sun will reach a distance equal to 9 radii of our star, its closest perihelion.
These are frighteningly close distances and we can say that humanity is "touching" the Sun", he explained speaking to his radio station RES, "Agency 104.9FM" the Dr. Olga Malandraki, Greek Space Physics researcher, space weather expert, head of the Space Weather Operational Unit of National Observatory of Athens (EAA) which supplies internationally unique Space Weather forecasts.
The mysterious heliosphere and the Greek distinction
The Greek head of the Space Weather Operational Unit of the ESA returned with an important award of her NASA's Group Achievement Award for her work with her Parker Solar Probe Team tasked with analyzing data from this advanced space probe. “The Team Achievement Award was given to the mission scientists Parker Solar Probe in recognition of the team's efforts to create and operate the first "touch the Sun” mission of Humanity. We are excited to participate", she emphasized Ms. Malandraki which also described the objectives set by the missions Parker Solar Probe and the Solar Orbiter.
And in the 1980s the spaceships had gone there HELIOS – a cooperation of Germany with NASA – which went a third of the distance, but did not have the technology experiments we have today. Therefore, the part of space between the Sun and the Earth, the inner heliosphere as it is called, was a mystery..., explained the Greek Space Physics researcher.
Two spaceships, one mission around the Sun
Ms. Malandraki participates in the experiment IS⊙IS with the professor McComas from Princeton University as Principal Investigator, at the Energetic Particle Detector with the teachers Javier Rodriguez-Pacheco and Bob Wimmer-Schweingrueber Spain and Germany respectively as Co-Investigators on the Solar Orbiter and as he already mentioned "...some strange effects near the Sun" have been observed.
She points out the paradox in space physics, that the temperature does not decrease as one moves away from the sun.
At the same time he noted: "phenomena have been found that we do not see at all from the Earth's orbit. They occur close to the sun, are small phenomena and have the effect of filling the area around the sun like a reservoir of particles. These cannot be detected on Earth because they are of lower intensity and coincide with periods when the Sun is in a fairly low period of activity. This is very important because it means that there are already particles around the Sun where larger explosions start at a high energy level and accelerate them further. This is how we understand why some particles finally reach the Earth's orbit at these high intensities."
As the Greek researcher finally mentioned,
In the field of Space it is important to be present as Greek researchers, to have funding to advance programs so that we can provide jobs here. he added.
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