The Shield

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The space ship has to its test campaign and is now ready to go to Cape Canaveral in Florida

The European space probe to take the goals, the closest ever images of The Sun built and ready for launch.

The test itself within the orbit of the planet mercury to train its telescopes on The Surface of our star.

Other instruments, it is the sense of the constant outflow of particles and their embedded magnetic fields.

the scientists hope That the detailed observations can help you to better understand what drives the activity of The Sun .

it goes up and down on an 11-year cycle. It is sure to be a fascinating endeavor, but it is one That is of direct relevance to all people on the earth.

The energetic outbursts from our star, the ability to satellite damage, harm astronauts, affect radio communications and even electricity knock networks offline have.

"We do this not only for the sake of increasing our knowledge, but also to be able to take precautions, for example, by said satellite in Safe Mode when we know That big sun storms or the rental of the astronauts leave the space station on these days", Daniel Müller, the European Space Agency (Esa), project scientist on SolO.

The probe was built in Stevenage, UK, Airbus (UK, €220 m in the 1, - €invested. 5 billion project), with the last year spent here at the IABG facility in Ottobrunn, Germany, for testing.

The space-ship of his examinations has been clarified and will now ship to Florida, coupled with the United Launch Alliance Atlas rocket, which throws him in the direction of The Sun in the beginning of February.

SolO was first conceived in the late 1990s.

A Central challenge for the Mature technologies, the protection of a probe flies to within 43 million km of our star.

the temperatures in this vicinity will receive up to 600 degrees.

SolO plan, to includes in order to survive these conditions, hidden behind a large titanium shield, and cool down with a complex series of radiators.

Sophisticated fault-recovery systems to ensure SolO stays out of trouble.

"When we explained the EN-point, we fall very quickly into difficulties, thermal", Airbus-project-manager Ian Walters .

"Our obligation is to ensure That we win under any failure scenario within 50 seconds, and in fact, our spaceship will go back to normal show in 22 seconds, all of which are Autonomous. "

The heatshield has peepholes to allow The Telescopes to see The Sun

But the probe still, watching the stars, and to do That , you need to peep holes on The Shield .

These are short-circuited to open the access to The Telescopes , their observations before closing it again.

The images and movies That will be coming to the back, unprecedented in its fine resolution.

Features That is smaller than 70km to be visible.

"It's amazing, every time we have the better resolution we see more and more," said Holly Gilbert, the US Space Agency 's Deputy project scientist of The Mission .

"The interactions between the solar plasma (energy gas) and its magnetic field are incredibly dynamic, and not only on the large scales, but on the very, very small scales.

"If the magnetic fields interact in a very explosive process called reconnection - this is a very small region.

"And to see how this leads to eruptions, we need to see the little things That are happening. "

One of the main differences between this mission and all previous such projects is to get That SolO on The First close-up images of our star's polar regions.

The High latitudes are known to be significant places for the magnetic behavior and the generation of the fastest outflows of particles.

"We have never seen, the solar Pole directly because of the earth, we have only a very grazing view," said Frédéric Auchère, a mission, a principal investigator at the Institut d'astrophysique Spatiale, Orsay, France.

"But these regions are very important because they are The Source of the fast solar wind, and we also know That in the solar interior things are happening at the poles, which may be The Key to understanding the solar activity and the solar cycle. "

the SolO will be the following.

The couple has many of the same scientific goals, and the same type of instruments, although only SolO look directly at The Sun .

Parker, not because he ' car, even closer to the stars, only 6 million km at closest approach.

It will just flow in-situ sensors, for example, for example, the particles on it. But scientists believe That The Duo , if it is in the correct position, it will initiate a powerful team in the observation of processes, close in The Sun , but then to the outside propagate.

"There are so many options, we combine this probe, the incredible science. The First serious opportunity will come in September of next year," said Tim Horbury, Imperial College London, told Bbc News .

graphic: Parker working in tandem with the SolO, but from much closer

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Source of news: bbc.com