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Mars astronauts may do laundry by blasting clothes with a plasma beam
Key takeaways
- There is currently no good way for astronauts in space to do laundry, but researchers may have finally come up with one: a bright purple jet of microbe-killing plasma
- University of Alabama in Huntsville, Propulsion Research Center
- Astronauts in space can’t do laundry – but that may be about to change.
Why this matters: new research or scientific developments with potential real-world impact.
There is currently no good way for astronauts in space to do laundry, but researchers may have finally come up with one: a bright purple jet of microbe-killing plasma
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University of Alabama in Huntsville, Propulsion Research Center
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