ESA utilizes “housekinging” spacecraft data to learn more about cosmic rays

Esa has reported using data that was originally collected for what was collected by spacecraft “housekeeping” was collected on the Mission of Rosetta and Mars Express to learn more about cosmic rays. Cosmic rays are high-energy radiation bursts, and data collected by spacecraft helps scientists understand how cosmic rays behave on Mars and in the deep solar system. Housekeeping data collected by spacecraft and its components are usually used by the engineering team to monitor the health of the spacecraft and diagnose errors.

Data includes information for health components and on / off status, among other information. Data can be linked with an interesting phenomenon scientifically and is seen as a valuable scientific resource that is usually not yet explored. For example, spacecraft operating in the room are usually beaten by charged particles from the Galaxy Bima Sakti, including cosmic rays. Cosmic rays are very challenging because they can cause damage to electronic components if they hit the hardware space and can threaten humans in orbit around the earth and on a more deep mission into space.

On this earth, the atmosphere around this planet protects the surface of the cosmic ray. Log Space Mission When the cosmic rays reach the computer onboard and cause memory errors, which are known as error detection and correction. Since its launch, Mars Express has collected the measurements, and recently the team accessed data collected since 2005, providing a collection of data for 15 years.

Various factors affect the intensity of cosmic rays in our solar system, one of these factors is where the sun is in the activity cycle of 11 years and the distance from the sun. With data Mars Express and Rosetta recorded, scientists can explore the relationship of sunburn-cosmic in detail. Scientists say this is the first detection of errors and correction data has been used to study the events that occur in the long term.

However, data has been used to explore short-term solar events in the past. After filtering data, scientists found that cosmic rays behave very similar to the sense of sun on Mars as they did on earth and were strongly influenced by the Sun cycle. The team also determined that the number of cosmic rays increased by around five percent per astronomical unit.