02/11/2015
Today we managed to compress 3 Laura, Flo and Jonathan as well as the 4 experiments into a VW Lupo ! After a 7 hour car ride from Erlangen to Bremen we were welcomed by Thorben from ZARM and moved into the (really nice!) drop tower guest house which is right next to the drop tower. We will live there for the next two weeks and so spend our first evening shopping some groceries. We are excited for tomorrow morning where we will get to know everything and our work at ZARM officially starts.
29/10/2015
Since microgravity time is quite valuable, we will run 4 copies of our experiment simultaneously. After receiving the last parts from the workshop we completed the assembly of all 4 units today!
26/10/2015
Dropping Drops meets Astro Alex! On Saturday we presented our experiment at "Die Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften" where Laura and our advisor Jonathan had the opportunity to meet ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst.
20/10/2015
Since we are quite curious we could not wait until we are at the drop tower to test the experiment. So we assembled a makeshift drop capsule by putting our experiment, a camera and some batteries into a shoebox. We then dropped the shoebox from the top of our lab room into a trashcan full of styrofoam. To our big surprise this acutally worked quite well and although the time it takes the shoebox to fall down in way to short to conduct the full experiment (there is a reason people go to the droptower after all) we at least could see a spherical drop forming.
20/10/2015
Hello, here are Laura, Fabian and Flo, we are a team of three students which has been awarded the opportunity to attend a drop-tower-campagin at the Bremen ZARM facility as part of the ESA Education Office sponsored program Drop Your Thesis!. We will research the imbibition of a drop of liquid water in a porous medium in zero-gravity. What this means is that we will create a large, spherical droplet of water and bringing it in contact with a porous surface and then watch how the drop is being swallowed into the pores.
For the duration of the campaign we will regularly update this page to keep everybody who is interested up to date on what we are doing.
