Fluid Boundaries in a NASA Drop Tower

A teacher workshop was conducted at NASA Glenn during the summer 2009. Similar to how student teams are challenged in DIME and WING, the teachers were challenged to develop a microgravity experiment that would be dropped two days later in the 2.2 Second Drop Tower. One team created a set of stratified liquids in a bottle. The teachers wanted to observe the fluid boundaries when gravity effects were drastically reduced. Unfortunately, the shape of the bottle sides acted as a lens right at the interface. To find out more about the student DIME and WING competitions, see this website: http://spaceflightsystems.grc.nasa.gov/DIME.html

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Education

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• microgravity
• free
• fall
• zero
• gravity
• fluid
• boundaries
• DIME
• WING
• NASA
• drop
• tower
• weightless