Posted on Aug 10, 2021
APOD: 2021 August 10 - Fire in Space
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Good morning, Rallypoint. Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) is titled "Fire in Space." What's mankind's oldest chemistry experiment? Combustion (fire). Light a candle on Earth, and you are rewarded with a teardrop-shaped flame (provided your candle wick isn't too long). But flames don't form teardrops on the International Space Station (ISS, see photo). In microgravity, flames are spheres. On Earth, a flame greedily consumes fuel (e.g. oxygen) and grows. In space, flames let the oxygen come to them.
Scientists also learned of a new phenomenon during experiments on the ISS: cool flames. A visible flame burns at a temperature greater than 2,200 degrees Fahrenheit. Cool flames burn at only 980 degrees. To top it off, the chemistry a cool flame is different. Visible flames produce soot, carbon dioxide, and water. Cool flames produce carbon monoxide and formaldehyde.
The oldest chemistry experiment continues.
Scientists also learned of a new phenomenon during experiments on the ISS: cool flames. A visible flame burns at a temperature greater than 2,200 degrees Fahrenheit. Cool flames burn at only 980 degrees. To top it off, the chemistry a cool flame is different. Visible flames produce soot, carbon dioxide, and water. Cool flames produce carbon monoxide and formaldehyde.
The oldest chemistry experiment continues.
APOD: 2021 August 10 - Fire in Space
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Long As I Can See The Light - John Fogerty (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
"Long As I Can See The Light" (live) - John Fogerty (Creedence Clearwater Revival). (Night of the Proms 2010 - Belgium/Netherlands)
Thank you my friend Maj William W. 'Bill' Price for posting the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) for Tuesday, August 10, 2021 entitled "Fire in Space." What's mankind's oldest chemistry experiment? Combustion (fire).
Image: Fire in Space - Image Credit - NASA
APOD Background
"Explanation: What does fire look like in space? In the gravity on Earth, heated air rises and expands, causing flames to be teardrop shaped. In the microgravity of the air-filled International Space Station (ISS), however, flames are spheres. Fire is the rapid acquisition of oxygen, and space flames meet new oxygen molecules when they float by randomly from all directions -- creating the enveloping sphere. In the featured image taken in the ISS's Combustion Integration Rack, a spherical flame envelopes clusters of hot glowing soot. Without oxygen, say in the vacuum of empty space, a fire would go out immediately. The many chemical reactions involved with fire are complex, and testing them in microgravity is helping humanity not only to better understand fire -- but how to put out fire, too."
Long As I Can See The Light - John Fogerty (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVN8VT53Ebs
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Image: Fire in Space - Image Credit - NASA
APOD Background
"Explanation: What does fire look like in space? In the gravity on Earth, heated air rises and expands, causing flames to be teardrop shaped. In the microgravity of the air-filled International Space Station (ISS), however, flames are spheres. Fire is the rapid acquisition of oxygen, and space flames meet new oxygen molecules when they float by randomly from all directions -- creating the enveloping sphere. In the featured image taken in the ISS's Combustion Integration Rack, a spherical flame envelopes clusters of hot glowing soot. Without oxygen, say in the vacuum of empty space, a fire would go out immediately. The many chemical reactions involved with fire are complex, and testing them in microgravity is helping humanity not only to better understand fire -- but how to put out fire, too."
Long As I Can See The Light - John Fogerty (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVN8VT53Ebs
FYI COL Mikel J. Burroughs MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D. Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. LTC (Join to see) SMSgt Lawrence McCarter Sgt (Join to see) Sgt Albert Castro PO1 William "Chip" Nagel SSG Samuel Kermon A1C Riley SandersGySgt Thomas Vick CPL Douglas ChryslerGySgt Jack Wallace1SG Steven Imerman MSgt James Clark-Rosa SGT Charlie LeeSSG Derrick IozzioCPO Arthur Weinberger SMSgt Mark Venzeio
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Johnny Cash - Ring Of Fire (Live)
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James Taylor - Fire And Rain (BBC In Concert, 11/16/1970)
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Serpentine? That doesn't look very serpentine in Zero G!
Serpentine Fire by Earth, Wind & Fire (Official Video)
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That is pretty amazing information. Even the things we take for granted here on Earth are different in space...
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