ESA centrifuge opens door to high-gravity worlds
Friday, September 30, 2011 - 07:31
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, ESA’s Large Diameter Centrifuge does just that.