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NASA Simulator Successfully Recreates Space Dust

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Image Caption: Scanning Electron Microscope image of a large (approximately 1.5 micrometer diameter) aggregate of nanograins produced in the Cosmic Simulation Chamber at NASA's Ames Research Center, using a 95 percent Ar 5% C2H2 gas mixture. The nanograins and aggregates are deposited onto ultra-high vacuum aluminum foil. Credit: NASA/Ames/Farid Salama

WASHINGTON, May 7, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ A team of scientists at NASAs Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., has successfully reproduced, right here on Earth, the processes that occur in the atmosphere of a red giant star and lead to the formation of planet-forming interstellar dust.

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Using a specialized facility, called the Cosmic Simulation Chamber (COSmIC) designed and built at Ames, scientists now are able to recreate and study in the laboratory dust grains similar to the grains that form in the outer layers of dying stars. Scientists plan to use the dust to gather clues to better understand the composition and the evolution of the universe.

Dust grains that form around dying stars and are ejected into the interstellar medium lead, after a life cycle spanning millions of years, to the formation of planets and are a key component of the universes evolution. Scientists have found the materials that make up the building blocks of the universe are much more complicated than originally anticipated.

The harsh conditions of space are extremely difficult to reproduce in the laboratory, and have long hindered efforts to interpret and analyze observations from space, said Farid Salama, project leader and a space science researcher at Ames. Using the COSmIC simulator we can now discover clues to questions about the composition and the evolution of the universe, both major objectives of NASAs space research program.

In the past, the inability to simulate space conditions in the gaseous state prevented scientists from identifying unknown matter. Because conditions in space are vastly different from conditions on Earth, it is challenging to identify extraterrestrial materials. Thanks to COSmIC, researchers can successfully simulate gas-phase environments similar to interstellar clouds, stellar envelopes or planetary atmospheres environments by expanding gases using a cold jet spray of argon gas seeded with hydrocarbons that cools down the molecules to temperatures representative of these environments.

COSmIC integrates a variety of state-of-the-art instruments to allow scientists to recreate space conditions in the laboratory to form, process and monitor simulated planetary and interstellar materials. The chamber is the heart of the system. It recreates the extreme conditions that reign in space where interstellar molecules and ions float in a vacuum at densities that are billionths of Earths atmosphere, average temperatures can be less than -270 degrees Fahrenheit (about 100 degrees Kelvin), and the environment is bathed in ultraviolet and visible radiation emanating from nearby stars.

By using COSmIC and building up on the work we recently published in the Astrophysical Journal August 29, 2013, we now can for the first time truly recreate and visualize in the laboratory the formation of carbon grains in the envelope of stars and learn about the formation, structure and size distribution of stellar dust grains, said Cesar Contreras of the Bay Area Environmental Research (BAER) Institute and a research fellow at Ames. This type of new research truly pushes the frontiers of science toward new horizons, and illustrates NASAs important contribution to science.

The team started with small hydrocarbon molecules that it expanded in the cold jet spray in COSmIC and exposed to high energy in an electric discharge. They detected and characterized the large molecules that are formed in the gas phase from these precursor molecules with highly sensitive detectors, then collected the individual solid grains formed from these complex molecules and imaged them using Ames Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM).

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NASA's Four New Lines Of Business Focus On Problem-Solving

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Image Caption: This artist's concept shows an astronaut preparing to use a special tool to take samples from the captured asteroid after it has been relocated to a stable orbit in the Earth-moon system. NASA's Exploration Surface Systems Office may help develop such tools. Credit: NASA

By Bob Granath, NASA

Engineering is about making dreams a reality. At NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the team in the Engineering and Technology Directorate not only puts those visions on paper, but sees the designs all the way through from development to reality.

This key organization recently aligned its structure around four new lines of business. This fresh approach is designed to bring its functions in line with the spaceports efforts to transition from a historically government-only launch facility to an affordable, sustainable, multi-user spaceport for both government and commercial customers. Its also about meeting the complex challenges facing an increasingly technological world.

Its all about being proactive in our current environment, said Jack Fox, technical assistant for Engineering and Technologys Lines of Business. We have many areas of expertise here at Kennedy. We want to engage the emerging multi-users and apply our capabilities to help them accomplish their missions.

The four new lines of business focus are Exploration Surface Systems, Spaceport and Space Systems Development, Technical Mission Success, and Small Payload Integrated Testing Services, or SPLITS.

Tom Aranyos, Technical Integration manager in NASAs Fluids and Propulsion Division and leader of the Spaceport and Space System Development line of business, explains that NASA Engineering and Technology is looking for ways to assist other NASA centers, as well as commercial industries.

We need to listen to what is keeping them up at night and offer assistance and advice on how we can help make them successful, he said. Our strategy is to respond to others needs by raising our hands and offering to help.

Fox says that being a multi-user spaceport means Kennedy is transitioning from supporting two or three large programs for long periods of time to supporting multiple customers with numerous, short-term efforts.

In the past, the bulk of our work focused on supporting programs such as the space shuttle and International Space Station, he said. We now are approaching other Kennedy directorates, other NASA centers, industry and academia to establish partnerships for proposing and winning engineering and technology development work.

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NASA Discovers Earth Is Amazing in 'The Onion' Parody (Video)

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The minds behind the satirical publication The Onion, take aim at NASA in a new, hilarious video poking fun at the space agency's relationship with the planet Earth.

The video takes the form of a newscast about a fictional NASA press event in which (fake) officials with the space agency explain that everything they need and want is actually on Earth, not in space. "After decades of searching the cosmos, today NASA announced that what it was really looking for was right here on planet Earth all along," the Onion newscaster said.

In The Onion's bizarre-o world, NASA scientists are planning to re-focus their efforts on more Earth-based endeavors like studying "the little things that truly give life meaning," said the newscaster. You can watch the full video in the window below:

NASA Discovers This Planet, Planet Earth, Just Might Be What Its Been Searching For All Along

"For years we foolishly chased after comets, moons and stars," Cole Wilson, a fake NASA researcher said in the video. "Outer space may be beautiful, but it's not as beautiful as the smile of a child, nor as sublime as a good bottle of wine shared among friends. Our search ends where it began, here on this big blue marble." [See photos of Earth taken from space by NASA]

The real NASA even responded to The Onion's video via Twitter yesterday (May 6): "Haha- but Earth is our favorite planet! 17 satellites study #EarthRightNow + we study the universe," real officials with NASA (@NASA) wrote.

Check out more from The Onion: http://www.theonion.com/video/nasa-discovers-this-planet-planet-earth-just-might,35961/

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The Space Shuttle – NASA Development & Construction of the Space Shuttle – Enterprise – 1979 – Video

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The Space Shuttle - NASA Development Construction of the Space Shuttle - Enterprise - 1979
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