The ISS Program Science Office (my office) started a blog awhile back with the idea of using it as a way to get our messages out on hot topics related to space station research. I just wrote my first one in a series of physical science topics. I really wanted to do these write-ups in a way that the average person could understand and relate to because physics is all around us, and these processes can be really neat if you understand what's happening. And even neater if you can understand why we study these processes in space.
Although I think the topic of boiling in space has been beaten to death, a new boiling experiment just started on the space station last week. So this was timely and a good one to cut my teeth on. Here it is, in all its glory. I do know that boiling is a much more complex process than I lay out here, and as I was writing it I was wondering which physicist might subsequently send me a nasty-gram about it, but...
Click here to read my boiling blog entry on NASA.gov
Later!
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Dr Ruttley.....so professional. Even your picture makes you "look" like a REAL scientist. Oh yea, I guess we are now aren't we? With real jobs? Real families? Real kids? Yikes! When did we grow up?
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