Cloud Lab blimp, world's largest airship, searching for life in clouds
Sep 19, 2013
BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. —A huge blimp called Cloud Lab is in the air searching for life in the clouds, and it has been hanging above Brevard County lately.
The ship is on an expedition across the country funded by the British Broadcasting Corporation.
It is loaded with many experiments and a team of researchers on a mission to investigate all kinds of things, including how hurricanes form, how the climate it changing and how far up life can be found.
"If you are a micro-organism and free floating, it might be a place to scavenge water and trace nutrients and actually make a living before returning to the earth's surface," said NASA microbiologist Dr. David Smith.
Smith has rounded up bacteria-like microscopic living things found at the Kennedy Space Center, which potentially could hitch a ride to Mars.
On the blimp, they'll be exposed to clouds to see how well they do among the billions of floating water droplets.
It may be a whole new way for humans to comprehend how life survives.
Read more: http://www.wesh.com/news/central-florida/brevard-county/cloud-lab-blimp-worlds-largest-airship-searching-for-life-in-clouds/-/11788124/22028410/-/tuwue2/-/index.html#ixzz2iLbMVK
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mudra
Sep 19, 2013
BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. —A huge blimp called Cloud Lab is in the air searching for life in the clouds, and it has been hanging above Brevard County lately.
The ship is on an expedition across the country funded by the British Broadcasting Corporation.
It is loaded with many experiments and a team of researchers on a mission to investigate all kinds of things, including how hurricanes form, how the climate it changing and how far up life can be found.
"If you are a micro-organism and free floating, it might be a place to scavenge water and trace nutrients and actually make a living before returning to the earth's surface," said NASA microbiologist Dr. David Smith.
Smith has rounded up bacteria-like microscopic living things found at the Kennedy Space Center, which potentially could hitch a ride to Mars.
On the blimp, they'll be exposed to clouds to see how well they do among the billions of floating water droplets.
It may be a whole new way for humans to comprehend how life survives.
Read more: http://www.wesh.com/news/central-florida/brevard-county/cloud-lab-blimp-worlds-largest-airship-searching-for-life-in-clouds/-/11788124/22028410/-/tuwue2/-/index.html#ixzz2iLbMVK
Love Always
mudra
