ISS to house Cold Air Labratory for extreme temperature atomic research
March 8 (UPI) -- The International Space Station will be home to the coldest place in the universe this summer after NASA scientists conduct experiments in a chamber that cools temperatures to near absolute zero.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology announced a plan Wednesday to send up the agency's Cold Atom Laboratory, an ice-chest sized box that can lower its internal temperature to within one-billionth of a degree above absolute zero, the temperature at which all atomic motion stops.
The zero-gravity extreme cold experiments could yield exciting new discoveries about the state of matter, NASA scientist Robert Thompson said.
"Studying these hyper-cold atoms could reshape our understanding of matter and the fundamental nature of gravity," he said. "The experiments we'll do with the Cold Atom Lab will give us insight into gravity and dark energy -- some of the most pervasive forces in the universe."
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