Science, Progress Undocking Preps for Station Crew
10 Jul 2012, 03:32 UTC
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Expedition 32 Flight Engineer Joe Acaba worked with a couple of different experiments aboard the International Space Station Monday. He spent time on the Binary Colloidal Alloy Test science payload. In this experiment, also known as BCAT-6, station crew members photograph samples of polymer and colloidal particles as they change from liquids to gases, to model that phase change. The results will help scientists develop fundamental physics concepts previously cloaked by the effects of gravity.
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