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LEFT: Colorful fragments of crystals cluster at the end of white ice columns, created from thin wafers of frozen water. Petit used a blank, white laptop display and a polarizing filter to create the image. RIGHT: Pettit, wearing a black t-shirt and khaki cargo pants. sets up an experiment, to the right, with a DSLR camera facing rectangular piece of glass, rectangular ice blocks, and an extended computer screen.

Don Pettit Science of Opportunity

Iss072e096196 and iss072e098100 (Oct. 23, 2024) NASA astronaut Don Pettit merges science and art by turning water into thin wafers of ice using a space station freezer kept at -140 degrees Fahrenheit. Pettit photographed the ice using special equipment he brought from Earth, including a polarizing filter.

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