Plasma Ben | 3D: Spinning in ZeroG @benwl | Uploaded 13 years ago | Updated 22 hours ago
Spinning while onboard a NASA microgravity aircraft flight during the Teaching From Space campaign. This flight took place as part of a NASA pilot program to introduce high school teachers to ZeroG. Seen here is Ben Longmier, Ph.D., a NASA mentor for the Bergen Co Tech Technical School in Paramus, NJ. In the lower right hand corner is high school physics teacher Liz Henriquez. Also on the flight (strapped into the back seats at this point) was Dennis Montone. Teachers Laura Nardomarino, Luke Thawley, and Mike Chomin flew on a subsequent flight. This was the culmination of a semester long multidisciplinary effort involving physics, mathematics, language arts, social studies, and financial literacy classes from Bergen Tech.
More information at:
http://www.wix.com/btzerog/zerog-2011
www.ProjectAether.org
Spinning while onboard a NASA microgravity aircraft flight during the Teaching From Space campaign. This flight took place as part of a NASA pilot program to introduce high school teachers to ZeroG. Seen here is Ben Longmier, Ph.D., a NASA mentor for the Bergen Co Tech Technical School in Paramus, NJ. In the lower right hand corner is high school physics teacher Liz Henriquez. Also on the flight (strapped into the back seats at this point) was Dennis Montone. Teachers Laura Nardomarino, Luke Thawley, and Mike Chomin flew on a subsequent flight. This was the culmination of a semester long multidisciplinary effort involving physics, mathematics, language arts, social studies, and financial literacy classes from Bergen Tech.
More information at:
http://www.wix.com/btzerog/zerog-2011
www.ProjectAether.org
![Drinking Water in Zero-G [HD]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/d2gdCLuXpgs/hqdefault.jpg "Drinking Water in Zero-G [HD]
How to Drink Water in ZeroG
Due to its unusually large surface tension, water will tend to form relatively large spheres in a microgravity environment when expelled from a container. In this case, the water droplet size was largely determined by the size of the water bottle opening. Even though the droplets are put into motion and are spinning, they more or less stay together in one contiguous sphere (until eaten of course). This footage was filmed with GoPros HD Hero, which provided an ideal wide angle view of the research airplane in these close quarters.
Dr. Don Pettit performed many more science outreach experiments with water during his space station stay:
/watch?v=bgC-ocnTTto
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Properties_of_water")
