Peering beyond the haze of alien worlds, and how failures help us make new discoveries
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How to Make a Titan Chamber?
This all got started from a collaboration between planetary theorists and experimentalists. Nicole Lewis, who's an astronomer at Cornell University, noticed that they were going to have this problem with the hazes. They're mixing eight or nine different combinations of gases. Some of those are really hard to get out of the chambers. You know, water vapor in particular is really sticky to these metallic surfaces inside the water.
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