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PIA17794: NASA's Cold Atom Laboratory (CAL) Chip (Artist's Concept)

Artist's concept of a magneto-optical trap and atom chip to be used by NASA's Cold Atom Laboratory (CAL) aboard the International Space Station.

Mission:	CAL
Product Size:	2076 x 1080 pixels (w x h)
Produced By:	JPL
Full-Res TIFF:	PIA17794.tif (6.729 MB)
Full-Res JPEG:	PIA17794.jpg (95.11 kB)

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Artist's concept of a magneto-optical trap and atom chip to be used by NASA's Cold Atom Laboratory (CAL) aboard the International Space Station.

CAL will provide an opportunity to study ultra-cold quantum gases in the microgravity environment of the space station -- a frontier in scientific research that is expected to reveal interesting and novel quantum phenomena.

The Cold Atom Laboratory (CAL) project office is at JPL, which is developing the instrument in-house. CAL is a joint partnership of JPL, NASA's International Space Station Program Office at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, and the Space Life and Physical Sciences Branch at NASA HQ.

More information on CAL is online at: http://coldatomlab.jpl.nasa.gov.

Image Credit:

NASA/JPL-Caltech

Image Addition Date:

2014-01-30