Last week, NASA announced its next New Frontiers mission: a nuclear-powered drone named Dragonfly heading to Titan. This astrobiology mission is set to search our solar system’s second largest moon for Keep reading
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Dust Envelopes Mars
Day has turned into night for NASA’s Opportunity rover as a massive dust storm envelopes Mars. The first signs of the dust storm were reported May 30th, and over the Keep reading
How Fluid Dynamics Saved the Space Shuttle
New FYFD video! In which Dianna Cowern (Physics Girl) joins me to explore boundary layer transition and how a couple of small bits of roughness could be a huge problem Keep reading
Fluids Round-Up
Time for another fluids round-up! Here are some of the best fluids-related links I’ve seen around: – Above The Brain Scoop tells us about beetles that spend their whole lives Keep reading
Coffee-Making in Space
In this video, Kjell Lindgren demonstrates his technique for making coffee aboard the Space Station. Astronauts usually drink coffee reconstituted from powder, or, on special occasions, enjoy a beverage from Keep reading
Fluids Round-up
Last week was supposed to have a fluids round-up, but we were having too much fun walking on water instead. So here it is now! – NASA has asked Congress Keep reading
Shock Waves in Flight
Schlieren optical systems have been used to visualize shock waves in labs for more than a century, but the technique did not translate well to photographing shock structures outside the Keep reading
Fluids Round-up – 7 December 2013
Fluids round-up time! I missed out last weekend because of the holidays, so this is a long list of links. There’s a lot of really great stuff here, including some Keep reading
Schlieren in Flight
Schlieren photography is a common method of visualizing shock waves in wind tunnel experiments, but it’s much harder to pull off for aircraft in the sky. This video from NASA Keep reading
Effects of Hills on Flow
Hills and other topology can have interesting and complex effects on a flowfield. With the FAITH experiment, NASA has been investigating an axisymmetric model hill using a combination of experimental Keep reading