Salt-seeking instrument blanketed in silver
Tuesday, January 25, 2011 - 10:31
in Astronomy & Space
(PhysOrg.com) -- Technicians from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., completed the installation of thermal blankets on NASA's Aquarius instrument last week, as the Aquarius/Satelite de Aplicaciones Cientificas (SAC-D) spacecraft continued functional performance tests at Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (Laboratório de Integracao e Testes Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, or LIT-INPE) in Sáo José dos Campos.