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Research on plasma dust charging might have applications in mitigating moon dust complications on impending
manned space missions.

A team of researchers led by CASPER director Dr. Truell Hyde, CASPER Associate Director Dr. Lorin Matthews and CASPER Research Professor, Dr. Eva Kostadinova were recently awarded a contract from the Jet Propulsion Lab to explore dust mitigation on the lunar surface.

CASPER scientists develop microgravity experiments for the PK-4 on board the International Space Station in order to investigate the fundamental origins of order and chaos in smart fluids.

Augusto Carballido, Ph.D., assistant research professor in Baylor's Center for Astrophysics, Space Physics and Engineering Research (CASPER), is one of the creators of a TED-Ed lesson titled "There may be extraterrestrial life in our solar system”.

Rene Laufer, Ph.D., associate research professor and head of the Space Science Lab in Baylor's Center for Astrophysics, Space Physics and Engineering Research (CASPER), is one of the creators of a TED-Ed lesson titled "How far would you have to go to escape gravity?"

Imagine looking under your couch and instead of finding fluffy dust
bunnies, you see the dust is arranged in straight lines—you might wonder what caused this order. Scientists are experiencing that same feeling, not with dust under a couch, but with electrically charged dust in the microgravity of space.

A team of researchers led by CASPER director Dr. Truell
Hyde was informed in February of a decision by NASA and
the National Science Foundation to support their proposal to
conduct fundamental dusty plasma physics experiments aboard
the International Space Station.

A team of researchers led by CASPER director Dr. Truell
Hyde was informed in February of a decision by NASA and
the National Science Foundation to support their proposal to
conduct fundamental dusty plasma physics experiments aboard
the International Space Station.

Baylor Professor of Physics Dr. Lorin Matthews recently addressed fellow scientists and others at a January 30, 2018, Distinguished Speakers Series seminar at the University of Alabama at Huntsville.

by Davide Castelvecchi & Alexandra Witze - NATURE

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.02511v2.pdf

by Gary Stokes

A "lonely mountain" stands unaccompanied on the icy gray surface of the dwarf planet Ceres, in amazing new photographs from NASA's Dawn spacecraft.