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Light Microscopy Module (LMM)

The Light Microscopy Module (LMM) is a modified commercial, highly flexible, state-of-the-art light imaging microscope facility that provides researchers with powerful diagnostic hardware and software onboard the International Space Station (ISS). The LMM enables novel research of microscopic phenomena in microgravity, with the capability of remotely acquiring and downloading digital images and videos across many levels of magnification. The way that matter is organized and moves on the microscopic level profoundly affects the macroscopic world and an understanding of such processes helps scientists and engineers build more efficient materials and machines both for both the earth and space environments.

Experiments using the LMM

Advanced Colloids Experiments (ACE)

Advanced Colloids Experiments (ACE) To remove gravitational jamming and sedimentation so that it is possible to observe how order arises out of disorder and to learn to control this process.

Constrained Vapor Bubble (CVB)

Constrained Vapor Bubble (CVB) The thermophysical principles underlying change-of-phase heat transfer systems are not well understood in microgravity conditions and are less than optimized even in earth gravity.

Preliminary Advanced Colloids Experiment (PACE)

PACE determines which Light Microscopy Module (LMM) magnifications are usable before external vibrations blur the images.

Preliminary Advanced Colloids Experiment – 2 (PACE-2)

PACE-2 follows up on this work by looking at a three-dimesional sample in a sample container that is comparable to what will be used by the Advanced Colloids Experiment (ACE).

Preliminary Advanced Colloids Experiment – Light Microscopy Module: Biological Samples (PACE-LMM-Bio)

Preliminary Advanced Colloids Experiment – Light Microscopy Module: Biological Samples (PACE-LMM-Bio) is a NASA Rapid Turn Around (RTA) engineering proof-of-concept proposal in preparation for the Advanced Colloids Experiment (ACE).

LMM Biophysics

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