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This chart details Skylab's Materials Processing Facility experiment (M512). This facility, located in the Multiple...
Hubble Sees Material Ejected From Comet Hale-Bopp
Spring Defrosting of Mass-Movement Material at South High Latitudes
Researchers check the cyclotron in the Materials and Stresses Building at the National Aeronautics and Space...
This enhanced color composite image from Dawn's visible and infrared mapping spectrometer shows the area around...
A materials researcher at the NACA’s Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory examines a surface crack detection apparatus...
A burner rig heats up a material sample in the Materials and Stresses Building at the National Aeronautics and Space...
Matthew Koss lectures middle-school students about materials science research in space during the U.S. Microgravity...
Pratima Rao lectures students about materials science research in space during the U.S. Microgravity Payload-4...
This metal sample, which is approximately 1 cm in diameter, is typical of the metals that were studied using the...
NASA Dawn spacecraft obtained this image of bright and dark materials on Vesta surface on August 6, 2011. This image...
One of three Mechanics of Granular Materials (MGM) test cells after flight on STS-79 and before impregnation with...
Engineering bench system hardware for the Mechanics of Granular Materials (MGM) experiment is tested on a lab bench...
Astronaut Jay Apt installs Mechanics of Granular Materials (MGM0 test cell on STS-79. Sand and soil grains have...
Tooting Crater is one of the youngest craters on Mars that is larger than 20-kilometers in diameter. Relatively low...
Line drawing depicts the location of one of three racks that will make up the Materials Science Research Facility in...
Solar material twists above the sun’s surface in this close-up captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory on June...
The Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars, an instrument on NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter,...
Paula Crawford (assisted by an American Sign Language interpreter) lectures students about materials science...
These images and overlay bar charts from the Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument on NASA's Curiosity Mars...
Khalid Alshibli of Louisiana State University, project scientist for the Mechanics of Granular Materials (MGM-III)...
Dr. Jan Rogers, project scientist for the Electrostatic Levitator (ESL) at NASA's Marshall Space Flight...
Twila Schneider of Infinity Technology in Huntsville, AL, uses a small sand displacement box to explain the...
Technicians at work in the Materials Processing Laboratory’s Creep Facility at the National Aeronautics and Space...