A New Addition to the International Space Station
The AMS can detect and sort hundreds of billions of high-energy particles whizzing through space
- By Elizabeth Quill
- Smithsonian magazine, March 2013
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Particle bender On its final cosmic journey before retirement in May 2011, the shuttle Endeavour delivered a precious payload to the International Space Station. The cargo was a $2 billion scientific instrument that had been in the works for more than 15 years: the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS), designed to detect and sort hundreds of billions of high-energy charged particles whizzing through space.
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Elizabeth Quill, I love how you use consumer analogies like gelato, doughnut and Hummer to bring us back down to earth. You've inspired a new addition to my growing Alternative Deafinition list (saw your 'can u hear me now' article): Quillters: patchwork pen piecers of thooughts and ideas. Kind regards, Mary, Mary Quite the Con'trary --ProPANE
Posted by Mary Armstrong on March 4,2013 | 04:49 PM