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Tango0110 Feb 2017 11:45 a.m. PST

"Our mighty Sun bathes Earth in a tender glow. Reach overhead on a cloud-free, summer day, and it almost feels like you can catch a few of its caressing rays. While your relaxing efforts will technically be unsuccessful, it should warm your heart to know that scientists have literally caught some of the Sun's rays. And you know what's even cooler? There's a place on Earth where you can actually hold a piece of the Sun!

Stored within two tidy cleanrooms at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas is a collection of metallic wafers and foils, and etched within their insides are particles of the solar wind. Fifteen years ago, these charged particles shot out into space from the Sun's upper atmosphere at speeds of up to 750 kilometers per second. Usually, they'd trek out into the solar system, but on this occasion, something was waiting for them. Camped at a location between the Earth and Sun where their gravity's cancel out was a radiant spacecraft, fanned out to catch as much of the precious particles as possible…"
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tkdguy11 Feb 2017 7:01 p.m. PST

"Wouldn't the spaceship have burned up?"

"No we went there at night!" wink

Jokes aside, good article. Thanks for sharing.

Tango0112 Feb 2017 3:32 p.m. PST

Good joke! (smile)


Glad you enjoyed it my friend!. (smile)


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