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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Championed by the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Samuel Ting of MIT, the instrument, which weighs more than three Hummer H3s, almost didn’t make it off the ground. The Columbia shuttle disaster in 2003 left its future uncertain, but Ting managed to keep it alive. Scientists are still working through early data: “You have to check your results very carefully,” Ting says. But expect initial findings to be announced any minute now.
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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