{"id":200883,"date":"2025-12-19T22:28:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T22:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/200883\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T22:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T22:28:08","slug":"water-droplet-science-nasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/200883\/","title":{"rendered":"Water Droplet Science &#8211; NASA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA astronaut <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/pQPosDg1OUU?si=qSiuUhTjI0PkqLfb\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Don Pettit<\/a> demonstrates electrostatic forces using charged water droplets and a knitting needle made of Teflon. This series of overlapping frames from Feb. 19, 2025, displays the unique attraction-repulsion properties of Teflon and charged droplets, similar to how charged particles from the Sun behave when they come in contact with Earth\u2019s magnetic field. Highly energetic particles from space that collide with atoms and molecules in the atmosphere create the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/sun\/auroras\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">aurora borealis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/missions\/station\/iss-research\/nasa-astronaut-don-pettits-science-of-opportunity-on-space-station\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Explore more of what Pettit has coined \u201cscience of opportunity.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Image credit: NASA\/Don Pettit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASA astronaut Don Pettit demonstrates electrostatic forces using charged water droplets and a knitting needle made of Teflon.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[61,60,82,247],"class_list":{"0":"post-200883","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-space"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}