GreenEarth
Well-Known Member
Heat, pressure, magnetism, gravitation, and radiation. I doubt you would be able to transmit a signal to earth so close to the sun without your signal being completely raped by the magnetic fields. You wouldn't really be able to land since there isn't a surface so I guess you would try to orbit, but you would have to be going incredibly fast to avoid spiraling down into the sun. I guess nothing is impossible with enough energy you could potentially escape the suns gravitational pull, and just take whatever you recorded back to earth. I can't really speculate on material strength and what's possible in the future, I'd go for something super reflective coating the entire ship. Again you'll have to protect against radiation and magnetic fields because I'm assuming sentitive electronics will be on board and will be susceptible to being instantly fried. Also I guess you would have to calculate time slowing down near the huge gravitational field of the sun.I like that idea. See how much deeper we could go with that technology. But is the heat the limitation for us to go deeper? Or is it the technology to go deeper? (incoming inception jokes)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_time_dilation
I don't really know how this might affect space craft operations, maybe when you try to transmit a signal or something, or tracking the ship from a location farther away from the gravitational field.