NASA NTRS · 19870065728
Space Station gas-grain simulation facility - Application to exobiology
Abstract
The technical issues involved in performing experiments on the behavior and properties of aerosols in a microgravity environment provided by the Space Station are reviewed. The displacement of a particle resulting from g-jitter for ballistic, Knudsen, and Stokes flow regimes is examined in detail, and the radiation, acoustic, electrostatic, and electromagnetic mechanisms for the control of this motion are described. The simulation of organic haze production on Titan has been selected as an example experiment for detailed study. The purpose of this experiment was to simulate the photolysis of methane and the subsequent formation of the organic haze particles in the Titan upper atmosphere.
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Mckay, C. P., Stoker, C. R., Morris, J., Conley, G., Schwartz, D.. 1986-01-01. Space Station gas-grain simulation facility - Application to exobiology. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19870065728
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