BioAsteroid
jsc2020e040948 (7/18/2020 --- A preflight view of BioAsteroid Experiment Unit integrated into the Experiment Container. The Experiment Container provides the necessary interface to the KUBIK. The BioAsteroid investigation studies how gravity affects the interaction between microbes and rock in a liquid medium. It is hoped that BioAsteroid can provide researchers a better understanding of basic physical processes - such as gravity, convection, and mixing - that control the way liquids mix with rocks and microbes. This will inform biomining, use of regolith in life support systems, and other bioprocessing applications involving rocks and regolith.
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jsc2020e040948
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July 18, 2019
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JSC
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