Planck’s cooling system (at 1 degree Kelvin)
May 26, 2009
To achieve the mission goals, the Planck instruments - the Low Frequency Instrument (LFI) and the High Frequency Instrument (HFI) - will operate at a few degrees above absolute zero. To achieve this, a series of cooling stages are required.
The picture shows the third and last cooling stage, bringing down the temperature of the bolometers in HFI down to 0.1 K.
The picture shows the third and last cooling stage, bringing down the temperature of the bolometers in HFI down to 0.1 K.
Topics:
Technology Internet, Measurement, Physics, Space exploration, Absolute zero, Kelvin, Orders of magnitude, Temperature, Bolometer, Thermodynamics, Planck, European Space Agency, Spaceflight
