‘Starman’ travels already 1 year with his Tesla through the space: how is the situation with the legendary duo?

Science is A bright red car, a dummy in a space suit and the tune of David Bowie: as was the Tesla Roadster, exactly a year and one day ago with a ‘Starman’ on board, in the direction of the space. How it would be made with the bright red car and its driver?

The car and driver do it pretty well. Together, they laid more than 760 million km. That distance can here on earth, impossible to be matched as the car in the space travel with a speed of about 42.000 kilometers per hour. the

Moreover, the ‘Starman’ still on board of his Tesla, that is for sure. He lost on the road is likely to his space suit. The mannequin travels after all stylishly through the area in his convertible, but there should he a price to pay for the value of an expensive space suit. Finally, the ‘Starman’ no roof over his head that he will protect you from the endless barrage of micrometeoroids, solar radiation and other cosmic rays.

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That is the radiation, also require their toll on the car. Even if the car is fully – inclusive body returns to the earth, that is heavily battered. The small ruimtesteentjes. the

Also the plastic and leather which the car exists, it is slowly being degraded by the radiation in the space. That tells chemist William Carroll. “The organic materials that are part of the leather seats, rubber tyres, and the bright red color of the car may already be gone,” says Carroll. “In such a extraordinary environment would I get the materials less than a year.” Some even over one million years still remains is the aluminum frame. And because SpaceX had predicted that the Roadster is one billion years would be around.

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