French astronaut Sophie Adenot teaches zero-gravity science lessons from the ISS
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Lemma Shehadi
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Summary
French astronaut Sophie Adenot, aboard the International Space Station since February, is conducting 200 microgravity experiments over eight months and sharing science lessons via video posts. In her latest demonstration, she shows how water forms a floating ball in zero gravity, which can be turned into a lens and tinted blue using food coloring from a sweet. Her mission aims to inspire public interest in space exploration through accessible science demonstrations from orbit.
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In her latest video post from the ISS, she showed how water could be turned into a lens, and then tinted into a blue filter using the food colouring it absorbs from a sweet.
In the footage, Adenot first catches a floating ball of water using a ring attached to a handle, which she has made herself.
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