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NASA Wants to Track Earth’s Gravity With a Cloud of Floating Atoms in Space
A suitcase-sized quantum sensor could soon reveal hidden water, oil, and even underground mountains—all by tracking how atoms ...
NASA’s Quantum Sensor Could Revolutionize Gravity Mapping
NASA and partners are building the first quantum gravity sensor for space, a breakthrough instrument that uses ultra-cold ...
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NASA's space-based quantum sensor to detect tiniest tremors in Earth's gravity
QGGPf is a gradiometer, an instrument that measures variations in Earth's gravity by comparing the acceleration at which two nearby objects (called test masses) fall.
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NASA developing 1st-ever space-based quantum sensor for gravity measurements
"We could determine the mass of the Himalayas using atoms," Jason Hyon, chief technologist for Earth Science at NASA's Jet ...
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In Space, Flames Behave in Ways Nobody Thought Possible
A composite false-color image of fire in space ... But odd things happen in space, where gravity loses its grip on solids, liquids and gases. Without gravity, hot air expands but doesn’t ...