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Stars are very hot, with temperatures measured in thousands of degrees. Even the coolest stars are very hot by human standards. Temperatures range from about 3,600° F to more than 90,000° F.
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Answer provided by Dirk Terrell, Ph.D.
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... space are warmer the closer they are to the Sun or Earth. Since radiation is the only way to transmit heat in space, the color or reflective properties of an object in space are important. A black object absorbs more light and gets warmer than a white object. The astronauts have white spacesuits which reflect sunlight to keep them from getting too hot in direct sunlight, and they ...
... charcoal filters are utilized in filtering out harmful gases produced by the astronauts, such as methane, carbon dioxide, and ammonia. High efficiency particulate air filters (HEPA) are also used to remove hair and dead skin produced by the astronauts (yes, we all shed skin continuously). The filters are changed out ...
... , which is something like motion sickness on Earth. This lasts for a day or two, until their balance systems get used to being in space. When they come back to Earth, they again have ... this.
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Answer provided by Col. USAF Dr. Richard S. Williams
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In space there is a wind called the solar wind. It originates on the Sun and blows past the Earth at thousands to millions of miles per hour. The solar wind ... per hour.
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Answer provided by Robert P. McCoy, Ph.D.
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... and/or operations. The issue is that not all complex systems could be fully tested; such as exist in the spacecrafts and weightlessness. The Apollo 13 near fatal accident might have been averted had they ...
... why was it working so well this time. The simple answer is that the right people at the right time are working together in a government, industry, and academic collaborative environment.
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... Fires, Underground fires, and Illegal Poaching of global forest and marine fishery resources. This data could be coordinated by supercomputers into a Central Information Resource, which would be available to scientists and ...
... temperature on Venus is 867.2° F. Venus may have originally had as much water as Earth; but, with continuous heating, water vapor was split into hydrogen (which escaped into space) and oxygen (which combined with the rock). Because of their dryness, Venus's rocks are much harder than Earth's, which leads to steeper mountains, cliffs and other features.
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... legs, that will not make you move in space. So far, about three-fourths of the people who have gone into space have some feelings of space sickness. The good news is that almost everyone gets over it by about the third day. It's really pretty much like seasickness, and there are lots of medications to help.
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