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Japan’s one of those places where conventional wisdom is generally turned on its head — no, you really don’t need to cook that fish before eating it; yes, you are supposed to bathe butt naked with those 80-year-old crones — so, it’s no surprise to see Jaxa, the national space agency, deliberately staring into our solar system’s fiery life-giver just for kicks.
Sure, they claim sending up a satellite recently to peer at solar flares is likely to yield information that can help predict the Sun’s weather a little better and, thus, protect everything from astronauts to cellphone networks but we reckon they’re doing it just cos they can.
Oh, and in another twist of Japanese logic, the satellite was called Solar-B at launch but has been rechristened Hinode (Sunrise) now that it’s parked in Sun-synchronous Earth orbit.
(Via BBC; Jaxa launch video)
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