moon project

Learning from lunar lights

Every few hours observing the Moon, ESA’s ‘NELIOTA’ project discovers a brilliant flash of light across its surface – the result of an object hurtling through space and striking our unprotected rocky neighbour at vast…

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Capturing spray from flash-boiling liquid jets

Ultrafast video capture of droplet cloud formation should help minimize the risk of gas-leak explosions. Using an ultrahigh-speed video camera operating at speeds of five million frames per second, KAUST researchers have captured footage of…