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There can be a supply of water inside. It has a huge thermal capacity and can limit the temperature of the probe at 100 °C as long as there's some of it in the cooler. As the probe goes down, the water circulates and the vapor is released outside, carrying heat away from the electronics. Of course, you wouldn't send a basketball-sized probe. It should be a fairly large sphere, 2 m in diameter perhaps. It's not that difficult. There are more factors to account for than just pressure and temperature, otherwise touching a lighter flame would destroy your hand instantly.

Probes use special cameras. The images are taken through special filters. For example UV, green, orange, and then a computer on Earth processes it to look as close as it would be to what a human eye sees in those conditions. Almost none of the space photos you ever saw, being planetary bodies or nebulas, were made using classical approach. A lot of them aren't even processed to appear naturally. For example, Venus is a featureless blob of bright and bit creamy color, Enceladus doesn't have blue stripes, Mercury isn't perfectly gray, etc. But that doesn't matter what kind of cameras they use. People behind the missions sometimes forget it's the public that feeds them money. ESA tried to follow the same dumbass approach with 67P, so people got angry and protest e-mails started pouring in. Result - now they release images almost on a daily basis.

New trailer, folks.

The probe could have windows made out of aluminium oxide. Synthetic corundum (or sapphire, if you're more familiar with that name) optical windows allow for UV, VIS and IR transparency. It's pretty inert stuff, refractory. Melts above 2000 °C. Quite common, actually. The problem is not the temperature. That's a limit we don't have to deal with because there simply aren't materials capable of remaining solid at 7000 °C. It's the heat. The heat creeps in and elevates the temperature, melting polymers in electronics. The insulating lining would include asbestos and similar stuff. If you want a probe for a gas giant, you have to go Venus style. Special electronics capable of working at 300-400 °C, so it would still work while the outside is beggining to melt.

No. It's a myth that it's a myth, and it's spread by teachers not competent enough to explain it correctly. Centripetal force is the force pulling the body towards the center. It might be the electrical force of the molecules in the rope spinning a bucket or gravity holding the Moon, doesn't matter. Centrifugal force is very real, but so called pseudoforce. It exists only in the rotated object's point of reference and is arises from the fact that there's a contiuous acceleration of the vector of the velocity. Velocity is speed and direction. While the speed remains the same, the direction changes. It's a type of acceleration which isn't something we can normally understand, though, but it exists. If there wasn't such thing as a cetrifugal force as the result of a vector acceleration (let's pretend for the sake of argument and ignore everything else), you'd only have centripetal force. The rope would pull in the bucket, the Moon would fall on Earth. In real world, the centripetal force and centrifugal (pseudo)force are equal and the bucket spins around your hand, and the Moon around Earth. One of the notable pseudoforces is so called hydrophobic force in cells. It's a completely different thing from centrifugal, but it just shows there are such things as pseudoforces. Not apparent outside a specific point of reference.

He's trying to look "tough" and that immediatelly fires up the douchebag alarm. Jeb is a playful and bold character, a bit loopy and careless. Not a douchebag. It should be a mixture of Robert Downey Jr., Johnny Depp, Jim Carrey...

It's probably almost pure raw image.

This is fairly simple and should help you. http://www.calctool.org/CALC/phys/newtonian/centrifugal

I've never depicted Jeb as a rightwing, religious fanatic nutter, which Norris is, and which was the reason behind all those jokes about the dude.

In Croatia it's "astronaut" and "kozmonaut" only when Soviet/Russian astronauts are discussed, but even then, "astronaut" is fairly dominant term.

And all the other tons of probes we've ever sent there couldn't take a single photo while they were approaching it? Not even one? Or it's perhaps that argument that the probe is there to do science, and not taking cool photos? Because sometimes that's true, but not always.

Good for them. For some reason, such photos are extremely rare, and damn it, it's really not that hard to take a photo once you're there.

Supposedly 8.1 is very different from 8, so... yeah.

All cool, but none of those are theories. They're wishes.

Actually, it's Greek ναῦ (ship) and ναÃÂÄη (seaman, sailor).

And to think there were people who were willing to be launched into outer space guided by half analogue, slow electromechanical stuff monitored in real time by an army of nerds with slide rules, pen and paper...

Are you serious?

Aristotle, because of the sheer magnitude of his work, which was just... insanely huge and diverse even by today's standards. He was very wrong at times, and was a prick, but the work he has done dwarfs that.

Nah, just laws of physics.

One millibyte per second? Poor guy.

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Banned for having an impolite number in the nickname.

The humanity would reach the Moon sooner or later because plenty of people were working on reactive engines. There's no need to put a war criminal in the list of greatest people ever.

Marie Curie is an extremely famous person, true, but not really among the top five greatest people ever. This is a question too difficult to answer without categorization.