Experiments on board NASA's C-9 plane:
First some preparations - (flight) training in the hypobaric chamber at NASA's neutral buoyancy lab:
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The decompression chamber... |
Flying time |
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The experimental data (shown at right) consisted of displacing starch grains during
periods of weightlessness by a high gradient magnetic field. This field was created by inserting wedges of
varying geometry between two high-powered permanent NeFeBo magnets. The video shows the sedimentation of
grains, the phase of weightlessness, and displacement of the grains after wedge insertion. |
Comments or suggestions? email: Karl H. Hasenstein |