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months and months and months of delays waiting for parts, finally at the rebuild stage
new motor and trans upgrades installed
rebuilt most the suspension , most of the wiring
won't be long before we test and tune, then into the spray booth to freshen up paint
A satisfying, audible ‘pop’ marked a successful piercing of the sealed Apollo 17 sample container using the ESA designed and built piercing tool. The tool forms part of a gas sampling system with a gas extraction manifold, designed and built by Washington University St Louis, USA.
Francesca McDonald, science and project lead of ESA’s contribution to the Apollo Next-Generation Sample Analysis (ANGSA) programme, is pictured at the centre of this image with the piercing tool, which contains the pristine sample.
Francesca and colleague, Timon Schild, delivered the ESA piercing tool to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in late 2021 in preparation of the opening of the specially curated Apollo 17 core sample, which had remained sealed under vacuum since its collection in 1972 at the Moon’s surface by Apollo astronaut Gene Cernan.
The job of the tool, jokingly called the “Apollo can opener” amongst the team, was to puncture the Moon sample vacuum container in such a way as to aid capturing trapped lunar gases within.
This was successfully done in February 2022, with the fragile gases then collected in dedicated canisters via an extraction manifold designed by a partner team at Washington University in Saint-Louis, USA.
“The piercing tool was bespoke designed for this Core Sample Vacuum Container (CSVC),” explains Francesca. Even if it’s not used again, she notes that, “there are a lot of lessons learned that we can take for future exploration of the Moon and Mars.”
Combined science and engineering investigations are producing a set of findings on how well the CSVC performed and what can be learnt for improving the sample return chain in the future.
The gas sample canisters are being sent to specialised laboratories around the world, including within Europe, for detailed studies using highly sensitive mass spectrometry analytical techniques to learn about the origin and evolution of volatile species on the Moon and to understand the geologic history of the Apollo 17 landing site.
Follow up work is commencing to assess the full performance of the tool and to attain a set of lessons learned for future volatile-rich sample return, containment and gas sampling, which can inform Artemis and Mars Sample Return.
The gas extraction experiment is part of the larger Apollo Next-Generation Sample Analysis (ANGSA) programme that is coordinating the analysis of several pristine Moon samples from the Apollo era. And for the first time ever, ESA is involved in the opening of soil returned from the Moon.
Credits: NASA/James Blair
In the lab - The picture is a portrait of my husband and I with a Linhof Technika chamber with a Harman direct positive paper by Emmanuel.
Doodled around in illustrator today and then slapped everything together. Not sure how comfortable I am with how Tesco-ish it looks. It wasn't my intention at all.
I finally got around to shooting a portrait of this minifig: Mr. Good and Evil. I'm not quite sure what the backstory on this guy is except that he looks a lot like Two-Face, haha. I tried to put a little more effort into creative interesting light/bokeh. I didn't pull it off exactly how I'd like to, but it's a step in the right direction.
I have a slight confession, I made this photo thinking this was a "Mad Scientist" minifig, but it wasn't. Had I know it's name was "Mr. Good and Evil", I would have changed up the lighting scenario. Oh wells!
Strobist:
Green gelled YN560 II @1/128th power at camera left aimed at glassware in the background triggered by Phottix Strato II's. YN560 II @1/64nd power in Honl 1/8" grid above and to the left of subject triggered by Phottix Strato II's.
Reggie Ballesteros Photography:
Breaking | accelerating the dynamic
*Blogged - paddyhamiltonstudios.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/from-bench-ta...
Last time I brought up the subject of electrolytic rust removal -- which was here:
www.flickr.com/photos/ghb624/5896789751/
I was using a setup similar to most others I've seen in YouTube videos and flickr pics. That is, a plastic bucket with something or other (iron or steel object) as the sacrificial anode. Both the anode and object to be de-rusted are of course placed in the electrolyte solution which more or less fills the bucket. Yesterday I felt slightly ambitious -- just enough to clean up one more tool, in this case a rusty file. It seemed wasteful to use a 2-gallon bucket for just one skinny object. I looked around for a smaller plastic container, ideally more tall and narrow, as would be appropriate for a file positioned vertically. Nothing jumped out at me from the chaos I call a workshop. But ... aha ... what about one of those 3-lb. coffee cans I've been stashing away for some unknown reason? True, they're metal. But, that could be a good thing. Why not let the container itself be the sacrificial anode?
I hooked it up for a test run and voila! Great electrolysis. Of course, I had to keep the file from contacting the can since that would constitute a short circuit -- no electrolysis that way and it wouldn't be good for the battery charger either! I cut off the bottom end of a plastic bottle and immersed it in the electrolyte so it would keep the bottom end of the file from contacting the bottom or side of the can. I wrapped some plastic around the upper part of the file so it could rest against the rim of the can without electrical contact. Later it occurred to me that the plastic lid of the coffee can could also be used for this purpose, as shown in the second image.
BTW, you don't see any electrolyte in either shot because I took the pics after the fact. But you can see (in image 1 anyway) how much rust came off the file and was deposited on the inside of the can. I'm still amazed at how slick this process works.
Now, if I'd just had a taller, skinnier can, I could've avoided having to do one half of the file, then flip it upside down to do the other end. Maybe next time ...
Self-portrait captured at my desk in my lab (early this morning, in actuality).
Please note and appreciate the strategic absence of the remote from the composition!
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"Fashion & Technology" is a bachelor and master program developing visions for sustainable, inclusive and emancipated fashion design at University of Art and Design Linz / Austria.
"In the Lab" takes a look behind the scenes of the future of fashion.
A series of videos make innovative processes of creation visible, not just the finished design solution.
Projects range from 3dimensional fashion sculptures spun on mechatronic device, biomorph lace, microorganisms as the farmers of the future to the emergence and decay of digital bodies.
Credit: TOKYO MIDTOWN
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Roger Craig stopped by my husband's company today. Andy has not stepped out of the clouds.
Details here: tinyurl.com/ax25sj
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Individual callus after 12 days on LIU medium
Photo courtesy of CABBI research scientist in Steve Moose's lab, Praveena Kanchupati.
Dear Lord,
Please let one take my life so I don't have to sort the rest.
In the Name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost,
Amen
Transformed callus on selection medium
Photo courtesy of CABBI research scientist in Steve Moose's lab, Praveena Kanchupati.
Regenerating plantlets on rooting medium
Photo courtesy of CABBI research scientist in Steve Moose's lab, Praveena Kanchupati.
Green calli on DBC3 medium
Photo courtesy of CABBI research scientist in Steve Moose's lab, Praveena Kanchupati.
Continuous cultivation system for glycolic acid production prepared by Nam Kyu Kang, postdoc in the Yong-Su Jin and Don Ort labs.This is a mutant Chlamydomonas reinhardtii microalgae. This strain is deficient in glycolate dehydrogenase (GDH).
Photo by Lucienne Burrus, CABBI lab manager.
PCR confirmed events on shooting medium
Photo courtesy of CABBI research scientist in Steve Moose's lab, Praveena Kanchupati.
Immature seeds were collected 12-14 days after anthesis
Photo courtesy of CABBI research scientist in Steve Moose's lab, Praveena Kanchupati.
Continuous cultivation system for glycolic acid production prepared by Nam Kyu Kang, postdoc in the Yong-Su Jin and Don Ort labs.This is a mutant Chlamydomonas reinhardtii microalgae. This strain is deficient in glycolate dehydrogenase (GDH).
Photo by Lucienne Burrus, CABBI lab manager.
Tx430 at the boot stage
Photo courtesy of CABBI research scientist in Steve Moose's lab, Praveena Kanchupati.
Green calli on DBC3 medium
Photo courtesy of CABBI research scientist in Steve Moose's lab, Praveena Kanchupati.
Continuous cultivation system for glycolic acid production prepared by Nam Kyu Kang, postdoc in the Yong-Su Jin and Don Ort labs.This is a mutant Chlamydomonas reinhardtii microalgae. This strain is deficient in glycolate dehydrogenase (GDH).
Photo by Lucienne Burrus, CABBI lab manager.