Question about The Sun in our solor system?

Question

Lets say you get close enough to the sun in space, and its like 70 degrees in that area of space. because gradually as you get closer to the sun the hotter its going to get. so if it is 70 degrees in space, all you would need is an oxygen mask right?

Answer 1

Don't forget about the humidity. You could dry out. Plus the radiation would kill you. The UV radiation would burn you to a crisp. Th ozone layer on earth protects us from harmful UV radiation. Plus you'd need a pressurized suit.

Answer 2

I hardly know where to begin.

Space is a vacuum, and does not have temperatures in "areas" the way your back yard does. Objects in space have temperatures as a result of radiant heat from the sun. A shoe box full of cat litter in orbit around the sun at the same distance as the earth would quickly rise to a temperature of about 150 degrees f.

But an "area of space" would remain at absolute zero. It's a vacuum, okay. No temperature at all.

If you placed a shoebox full of cat litter in orbit around the sun, say, near the planet Venus, it would quickly heat up to about 400 degrees f.

So if you were "near the sun" in a life-supporting environment suit, you would need a powerful cooling system, or you would literally roast. I mean with juices like a turkey.

Next, about oxygen. Oxygen is a minor component of the earth's atmosphere, though it is essential to life. Pure oxygen is toxic, and you would die if you breathed it except as a supplement to compressed air. When an Emergency Medical Tech or a doctor gives a patient oxygen, it is while the patient is breathing air, and just needs supplemental oxygen to counteract the effect of a breathing problem.

So SCUBA divers breathe compressed air, not oxygen, and the same goes for astronauts in space. Air, not oxygen.

Finally, no, a breathing mask alone would not keep you alive in open space. You must have a pressure suit that encloses your body completely. If exposed to a vacuum, the cavities of your body would experience lethal decompression, and you would live only a few seconds.

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Answer 3

Sun radiates many kind of electromagnetic waves like X rays,. So we need protection from harmful radiation and high energy particles coming from Sun. Only oxygen mask will not do,Also you did not mention temp scale degree F or degree c. If it is 70degree c you will require cooling system too
Chandramohan

Answer 4

As you get closer to the sun the side facing the sun fry's from the radiant heat while the side away from the sun freezes. Space itself is always cold. You also need a pressure suit or you will explode.

Answer 5

If you are floating in space, outside your craft, you would still need a space suit, as the lack of pressure on the outside of your body would cause you to explode. Not to mention the solar radiation you'd be exposed to.

Think of creatures that live at the bottom of the sea. What happens to them when they are brough to the surface, without maintaining the pressure they lived at? They also explode.

Answer 6

no the vacuum of space would suck the oxygen staight out of your body along with other materials, that and the fact that even a pebble sized asteroid can kill you, you will need some kind of sheild. the sun emmits harmful rays usually blocked by our atmosphere; this would bake your skin even if it was only 70 degrees.

Answer 7

No. There is no air in space, and the physical effects of vacuum will still kill you quite nicely. Astronauts don't wear those spacesuits just to keep warm.