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NASA Wants to Track Earth’s Gravity With a Cloud of Floating Atoms in Space
A suitcase-sized quantum sensor could soon reveal hidden water, oil, and even underground mountains—all by tracking how atoms ...
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Before-and-after images show effects space had on NASA astronauts after 9 months
especially for longer missions in deep space. Faces Puff Up, Eyes Blur, and Balance Disappears One of the most obvious changes in those viral photos? Puffy faces. Without gravity to pull fluids ...
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In Space, Flames Behave in Ways Nobody Thought Possible
A composite false-color image of fire in space ... But odd things happen in space, where gravity loses its grip on solids, liquids and gases. Without gravity, hot air expands but doesn’t ...
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NASA's space-based quantum sensor to detect tiniest tremors in Earth's gravity
QGGPf is a gradiometer, an instrument that measures variations in Earth's gravity by comparing the acceleration at which two ...