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Students study fire in microgravity on parabolic flight

July 12, 2013 TopSpacer

Students at Univ. of California at San Diego carried out experiments on combustion and flame in weightlessness while riding on a NASA plane flying parabolic trajectories:

  • Weightless Flames: How Fires Burn in Space | Fire in Zero-G – Space.com
  • MAE UCSD Team accepted into NASA’s Microgravity University program – UCSD Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

This article describes the odd behavior of flames in microgravity:  Strange Flames on the ISS – NASA Science. This video, seen also in this earlier post, is about the “strange, cool-burning form of fire”:

 

 

 

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