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NASA Glenn’s Propulsion Systems Lab (PSL) is conducting research to characterize ice crystal clouds that can create...
A scanning electron microscope photograph of iron crystals which grow in a small vug or cavity in a recrystallized...
Atomic force microscopy uses laser technology to reveal a defect, a double-screw dislocation, on the surface of this...
Advanced finite element models are used to study three-dimensional, time-dependent flow and segregation in crystal...
NASA Spitzer Space Telescope has, for the first time, detected tiny quartz-like crystals sprinkled in young...
STS50-262-004 (25 June-9 July 1992) --- Astronaut Kenneth D. Bowersox, STS-50 pilot, holds an autoclave used in the...
Professor Gerold Willing from the University of Louisville speaks about Colloidal Crystals possible use in the...
51B-01-007 (30 April 1985) --- Astronaut Don L. Lind, 51-B Spacelab 3 mission specialist, observes the growth of...
iss060e015022 (7/28/2019) — NASA astronaut Nick Hague is shown holding the Perfect Crystals investigation samples...
A collage of protein and virus crystals, many of which were grown on the U.S. Space Shuttle or Russian Space...
Lysozyme crystal grown on STS-81. A protein model for documentation of the effects of microgravity on crystal...
Professor Boris Khushid from the New Jersey Institute of Technology speaks about the Building Colloidal Crystals...
Horse Serum Albumin crystals grown during the USML-1 (STS-50) mission's Protein Crystal Growth Glovebox Experiment....
Vapor Crystal Growth System developed in IML-1, Mercuric Iodide Crystal grown in microgravity FES/VCGS (Fluids...
Using NASA Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have, for the first time, found signatures of silicate crystals...
DCAM, developed by MSFC, grows crystals by the dialysis and liquid-liquid diffusion methods. In both methods,...
High school students screen crystals of various proteins that are part of the ground-based work that supports...
High school students screen crystals of various proteins that are part of the ground-based work that supports...
High school students screen crystals of various proteins that are part of the ground-based work that supports...
The International Space Station could help develop new and better drugs for people on Earth, thanks to protein...
Comparison of Germanium Telluride (GeTe) Crystals grown on Earth (left) and in space (right) during the Skylab SL-3...
Video presentation highlighting work with ASGSR work with Better Quality Crystals on the International Space Station...
These images, from David Weitz’s liquid crystal research, show ordered uniform sized droplets (upper left) before...
Zeolites are crystalline aluminosilicates that have complex framework structures. However, there are several...