Thread: Apollo 13 Hoax?
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Old 05-November-2001, 01:51 PM
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On 2001-11-05 09:29, Karl wrote:

A 'mirror' made of black paint would run much cooler: absorptance = .97 emittance = .91

It's amazing how intutition fails totally when dealing with thermal optical properties.
You wouldn't happen to have the numbers for the Titanium alloy used in the CM and/or LM, would you? (Of course, even this isn't definitive unless you know something about how the outer skin was thermally coupled to the cabin.)

How about white paint?