Biological Laboratory for Experiments on the Orbital Station

Environmental Monitoring Station for Mars Science Laboratory

The Viking Landers measured pressure, wind speed and direction, and air temperature with a small boom [1]. Mars Pathfinder had the Atmospheric Structure Instrument on its lander and recorded pressure, air temperature and wind direction [2]. MSL has environment sensors within its payload as well: it is the REMS (Rover Environmental Monitoring Station) instrument, which is in charge of recording ...

Laboratory experiments on the interaction of streamers ∗

Pictures show that streamer or sprite discharge channels emerging from the same electrode or position sometimes seem to reconnect or merge even though their heads carry electric charge of the same polarity; one might therefore suspect that reconnections are an artifact of the two-dimensional projection in the pictures. We have used stereo-photography of laboratory scale streamer discharges to i...

Laboratory Experiments on Wave Turbulence

This review paper is devoted to a presentation of recent progress in wave turbulence. I first present the context and state of the art of this field of research both experimentally and theoretically. I then focus on the case of wave turbulence on the surface of a fluid, and I discuss the main results obtained by our group: caracterization of the gravity and capillary wave turbulence regimes, th...

Summary of Chum Salmon Stock Identification Research Conducted by the Molecular Genetics Laboratory, Pacific Biological Station

Preliminary Experiments on Image Processing for Satellite Orbital Maintenance

Rescuing a satellite once it has been launched is very difficult. Because we can only obtain information about a satellite by telemetry from the satellite itself, we cannot obtain any more information once a satellite has failed. Furthermore, space debris reentering the atmosphere is becoming a significant problem because the number of satellites is increasing. Therefore, we are currently study...