Terrestrial Microgravity Experiment now Fits on a Desk. It Creates Martian Soil by Gobbling Perchlorates.
Partial gravity? On Earth? Most of us, including the author, assumed extended duration microgravity or partial gravity research is not possible on Earth. We know of evacuated drop towers, the elegant zero-G parabolic flights on airplanes, but these typically last only seconds or, in the case of sounding rockets, a couple of minutes. This requires […]