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Dr. Richard Grugel, a materials scientist at NASA's Marshall Space Flight in Huntsville, Ala., examines the furnace...
Candidate Solar Array Materials
Candidate Solar Array Materials
Candidate Solar Array Materials
Candidate Solar Array Materials
Materials with a smaller mean atomic mass, such as lithium (Li) hydride and polyethylene, make the best radiation...
Pores and voids often form in metal castings on Earth (above) making them useless. A transparent material that...
The Center for Advanced Microgravity Materials Processing (CAMMP), a NASA-sponsored Research Partnership Center, is...
The Center for Advanced Microgravity Materials Processing (CAMMP) in Cambridge, MA, a NASA-sponsored Commercial...
On Earth when scientists melt metals, bubbles that form in the molten material can rise to the surface, pop and...
Video images sent to the ground allow scientists to watch the behavior of the bubbles as they control the melting...
Meridiani Materials
One of the first materials science experiments on the International Space Station -- the Solidification Using a...
Materials and Structures Laboratory, Building 49
Materials and Structures Laboratory, Building 49
Phillip Steele (EM42/ESSSA) examines composite material gears printed with Marshall’s MarkForged® 3D Printer...
The depressions in the rim of this unnamed crater in Terra Sabaea are being filled with new material. The surface...
Dark Material on Mercury
Memories of Many Mixed Materials
Microscopic Materials on a Magnet
Gullies and Ice-rich Material
Rays of Light Material
Mantling Material on Crater Floor
Gullies With Bright Material