EQUIPMENT USED:

• experimental unit "Plasma crystal 3";
• two TEAC video tape recorders, included in the on-board "Telescience" equipment.
  

OBJECTIVE:

A study of growth of plasma-dust structures in zero gravity.
A study of particle clouds behavior and internal flow structure in plasma-dust crystals.

TASKS:

Conducting two series of measurements that are needed to study the physics of the particles contained in low-pressure plasma, and to study quasi-stable plasma structures formed out of these particles.

THE CONDUCT OF THE EXPERIMENT AND EXPECTED RESULTS:

• video recording of plasma crystal formation process;
• digital data on the experiment parameters (gas pressure, high-frequency radiated power, the size of dust particles from which the crystal is formed) written to PCMCIA card.