Little fires everywhere 🔥
After igniting more than 1,500 fires on the @ISS—in a safe, specially-designed chamber—our @NASAAstronauts wrapped up their Advanced Combustion via Microgravity Experiments (ACME) project last week. Learning how flame flickers in the unique microgravity environment of the space station is helping scientists develop cleaner combustion engines back on Earth—and design safer spacecraft for our future journeys to the Moon and Mars.
This photo is a composite from nine different tests of ACME's Flame Design experiment. On Saturday, Feb. 19, our NG-17 cargo mission is scheduled to send SoFIE (Solid Fuel Ignition and Extinction) to the station: a new facility that will keep the torch burning for our orbiting flame research program.
Credit: @NASAGlenn
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