Novel diamond-like films on board NASA satellite
Monday, February 16, 2009 - 16:21
in Astronomy & Space
(PhysOrg.com) -- Diamond-like carbon films created at Sandia National Laboratories are helping probe the far boundaries of the solar system as part of a NASA mission to study how the sun's solar wind interacts with the interstellar medium - the matter that exists between the stars within a galaxy.
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