Explanation:
The International Space Station (ISS) has been equipped with a powerful new scientific laboratory.
The Space Shuttle Atlantis delivered the
Columbus Laboratory
to the ISS
and installed the seven meter long module over the past week.
Columbus
has ten racks for experiments that can be controlled from the station or the
Columbus Control Center
in Germany.
The first set of experiments includes the
Fluid Science Laboratory
that will explore fluid properties in the
microgravity
of low Earth orbit, and
Biolab which supports experiments on
microorganisms.
Future Columbus experiments include an
atomic clock that will test
minuscule timing effects including those expected by
Einstein's
General Theory of Relativity.
Pictured above, mission specialist
Hans Schlegel
works on the outside of Columbus.
Scientists from all over the world
may propose and carry out experiments to be done on the laboratory during its ten year mission.
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Watch the
Total
Lunar Eclipse the night of Feb. 20/21.
i find die amel bündig, die iss-bilder. isch halt scho nüme nüt, de usseposchte.
und sie hends au feng gediege döt obe. i de space shuttles werdeds mit musigwünsch gweckt, und wenn es shuttle wiedermol chunnt go adocke, funkeds öppe so grüsig und "cool" wie i stargate... amis halt.
