Wednesday, April 3, 2013

NASA AMS Mission: The Anti-Matter Hunter on the ISS

Credit: AMS-02 Collaboration

The NASA Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS), a $2 billion experiment to hunt for cosmic rays in space, stands in the clean room at the European physics lab CERN before it is shipped to NASA to be launched on a space shuttle.

Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer - dark matter, cosmic rays and antimatter galaxies from the International Space Station
Source SPACE.com: All about our solar system, outer space and exploration

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