ESA centrifuge opens door to high-gravity worlds
Monday, October 3, 2011 - 08:00
in Astronomy & Space
Astronauts' jobs sometimes weigh heavy on them: crews returning from space briefly endure g-loading more than four times Earth normal. Scientists interested in hypergravity need to create it for minutes, days or even weeks at a time. Fortunately, ESAs Large Diameter Centrifuge does just that.