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Without gravity, hot air expands but doesn’t move upward. The flame persists because of the diffusion of oxygen, with random oxygen molecules drifting into the fire.
In a zero-g plane I experimented with flames and slinkies with surprising results.Check out e-penser's video: http://ve42.co/EPzeroGCheck out Physicsgirl's v...
How Fire Burns in Space. Without the ability to spray water, how do you put out a fire in space? And for that matter, without gravity, what does a burning fire look like?
Have you ever thought about the behavior of fire in space? Neil deGrasse Tyson explores the astonishing science behind why flames behave so differently in mi...
The Solid Fuel Ignition and Extinction (SoFIE) project, a set of experiments that launched aboard Northrop Grumman’s 17th cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station, could light the way to a deeper understanding of fire in space.
NASA is playing with fire on the International Space Station — literally. Since March 2009, the space agency's Flame Extinguishment Experiment, or FLEX, has conducted more than 200 tests to...
Without gravity, the carbon strings don’t get burned, and the flame is blue, cooler, and much much dimmer. Studying fire in microgravity can render some important practical insight.
FLAME IN MICROGRAVITY is spherical owing to a lack of buoyancy and convection. In the early years of the U.S. space program, tests were conducted on unmanned missions to ascertain what would happen...
The Earth’s gravity imposes a lot of conditions on fire that wouldn’t happen in microgravity or zero g. Here’s why astronauts can’t burn a candle at both ends.
Zero-G Fire Pulses Like a Jellyfish on the Space Station. Balls of fire burning in low gravity could help scientists create cleaner, more efficient engine fuels