Timeline for If the Van Allen Radiation Belt reaches temperatures of 35,000C, How is it possible to go through them when the craft has a boiling point of 4000C? [closed]
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| Jul 3 at 7:13 | history | closed |
Jörg W Mittag Ryan C Rory Alsop♦ |
Needs details or clarity | |
| Jul 3 at 6:23 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Jul 3 at 6:23 | comment | added | The Rocket fan | This short gives a decent quick explanation: tiktok.com/t/ZPR3qBcUy | |
| Jul 2 at 23:24 | comment | added | uhoh | [+1] because it's a good question (even thought not written as a good Stack Exchange question) and has facilitated a good answer. Welcome to Stack Exchange! Can you add links to the sources for your numbers - especially where the Van Allen number comes from? Thanks! | |
| Jul 2 at 23:21 | comment | added | uhoh | For plasmas (like the Van Allen Radiation Belt) the temperature of the electrons is often much higher than of the ions, which is often higher than the neutral atoms. That's almost certainly an electron temperature. | |
| Jul 2 at 21:37 | comment | added | Organic Marble | Source for the numbers? | |
| Jul 2 at 21:12 | answer | added | Darth Pseudonym | timeline score: 13 | |
| Jul 2 at 19:35 | comment | added | Russell Borogove | For the same reason that you can put your hand in a 350ºF/180ºC oven without injury, but not in a pot of boiling water at only 212ºF/100ºC. | |
| Jul 2 at 19:25 | comment | added | notovny | As evidenced by the fact that tiny meteorites pass through the Van Allen belt all the time without vaporizing. | |
| Jul 2 at 19:21 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jul 2 at 19:16 | comment | added | Jon Custer | Because the belts are very tenuous and do not transfer enough energy to get the spacecraft anywhere near those temperatures. | |
| S Jul 2 at 18:36 | review | First questions | |||
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| S Jul 2 at 18:36 | history | asked | Emery | CC BY-SA 4.0 |