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CALCIUM. Photography of the Experiment Ops
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CALCIUM. Photography of the Experiment Ops

NASA / JSC · 2014-08-22 · photograph (digital archive)

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ISS040-E-104588 (22 Aug. 2014) --- In the International Space Station’s Rassvet Mini-Research Module 1 (MRM-1), Russian cosmonaut Maxim Suraev, Expedition 40 flight engineer, performs a session of the Calcium experiment, which examines the causes of the loss of bone density that occurs in a weightless environment. For this study, Russian researchers are looking at the solubility of calcium phosphates and human bone samples in water in space.

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Credit lineCALCIUM. Photography of the Experiment Ops. NASA/JSC, 2014-08-22. Public domain. ID: iss040e104588.

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