Timeline for Would coating a space ship in liquid nitrogen mask its thermal signature?
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| Jan 20, 2021 at 12:05 | comment | added | Peter - Reinstate Monica | Can you clarify the "sphere shaped shield" idea? | |
| Jan 20, 2021 at 12:03 | comment | added | Peter - Reinstate Monica | @Aron I don't think that's true. LN2 will become solid below 60K or so at zero pressure -- indeed, at any pressure -- if I read the diagrams correctly. | |
| Jan 20, 2021 at 10:20 | comment | added | Aron | Welcome Alex. Thank you for contributing. I am downvoting your answer, simply because your answe isn't well grounded in science. It seems most of your experience and intuition exists in Standard Temperature and Presure. You will find neither in space. The limit of the temperature that LN2 can get down to in a vacuum is really down to how low a pressure you can get, and Adiabatic Expansion. | |
| Jan 20, 2021 at 6:52 | history | answered | Alex Rd | CC BY-SA 4.0 |