πŸŒŸπŸš€βœ¨ Space Exploration 🌍⭐🌜

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Vantablack 310 only reflects 2% of light across the entire visible and near-infrared spectrum. It’s only a minimal diminishment in performance because the original coating reflected less than 0.1% of light.

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so black, it goes to 11!

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Vantablack is lauded for its light absorption capabilities. However anything that absorbs must also re-emit (except for perfect black-bodies). Hopefully vantablack re-emits in a wavelength that the atmosphere is opaque to, such as the 5 micron to 8 micron infrared range. Otherwise they’re just shifting thd problem to another band.

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Perfect blackbodies still radiate – the meaning is that there are no wavelengths they tend to absorb or emit more, so it just depends on the temperature. For a black object at our distance from the sun the equilibrium temperature is 278 K, just a little cooler than us (we reflect more but also have a greenhouse effect). So all else equal – i.e. no battery adding heat – it would radiate about the same wavelengths that Earth does.

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As soon as I put that text in parentheses I assumed a correction would be forthcoming :slight_smile:

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β€œIt’s the wild colour scheme that freaks me,” said Zaphod whose love affair with this ship had lasted almost three minutes into the flight, β€œEvery time you try to operate on of these weird black controls that are labelled in black on a black background, a little black light lights up black to let you know you’ve done it.”

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Just take a can up, put it in the module, seal the module off, and depressurize.

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Space walk outside the module with a bucket of soapy water. Brush water over the outer surface and you’ll quickly find the leak because you’ll see bubbles. Easy peasy.

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