jsc2024e065155 (11/8/2023) --- Preflight view of the IR-COASTER experiment portion of the Euro Material Ageing investigation. The science objective of IR-COASTER is to study the evolution (stability, transformation or degradation) of samples containing organic molecules when exposed to space conditions, including the Solar UV flux when it is not filtered by the Earth's atmosphere nor simulated by lamps in the laboratory. Image courtesy of the Interuniversity Laboratory of Atmospheric Systems (LISA)..
Album SpaceX_CRS-31_Science
Date November 8, 2023