Aboard the International Space Station, Researchers Investigate Complex Dust Behavior in Plasmas
Tuesday, August 7, 2018 - 10:50
in Astronomy & Space
400 kilometers above Earth, researchers examined waves in complex plasma under microgravity conditions and found that the microparticles behaved in nonuniform ways in the presence of varying electrical fields. They report some of the first findings from the Plasma-Kristall 4 experiment, a collaboration between the European Space Agency and the Russian State Space Corporation Roscosmos, in Physics of Plasmas.