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Space Foam Already Bubbling As Planned

posted by Fnord666 on Monday March 23 2020, @05:02AM   Printer-friendly
from the scrub-a-dub-dub dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Installed on Friday in the International Space Station and sending down images by Monday. This picture shows one of the first images of foam formed inside the Fluid Science Laboratory in Europe's space laboratory Columbus.

The Foam-Coarsening experiment, developed by Airbus for ESA, is set to be activated this month but this image shows that the liquids held in cells are already bubbling as planned.

The image [46.5Kb] will not be used by the scientists yet but is taken to allow the experiment operators at the Belgian User Operations Centre in Brussels, Belgium, to keep track of the experiment and set it up.

The foams come in self-contained cells and hold liquids that are shaken by pistons and analyzed with laser optics and high-resolution cameras for the scientists on Earth. Researchers are keen to observe how foams behave in microgravity.

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  • (Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Monday March 23 2020, @09:57PM

    by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Monday March 23 2020, @09:57PM (#974614)

    That picture is a lot less interesting than I hoped it would be.

    The science sounds great though.

    I wondered if casting steel in space might be a viable future industry, and with no gravity we might be able to cast strong, light steel foam.

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