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Pores and voids often form in metal castings on Earth (above) making them useless. A transparent material that behaves at a large scale in microgravity the way that metals behave at the microscopic scale on Earth, will help show how voids form and learn how to prevent them. Scientists are using the microgravity environment on the International Space Station to study how these bubbles form, move and interact.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineMaterial Science. NASA/MSFC, 2003-01-22. Public domain. ID: 0201079.
