{"id":583,"date":"2025-12-20T03:00:39","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T02:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/100blogs.ovh\/36\/index.php\/2025\/12\/20\/water-droplet-science\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T09:20:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T08:20:56","slug":"water-droplet-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/100blogs.ovh\/36\/index.php\/2025\/12\/20\/water-droplet-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Water Droplet Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-media hds-module wp-block-image\">\n<div class=\"margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline\">\n<div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\">\n<figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-cover \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/science-of-opportunity-stacked-water-dropslarge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/science-of-opportunity-stacked-water-dropslarge.jpg?w=1920\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"White streaks of motion swirl and swoop all over the image. At the middle of the image is a Teflon knitting needle.\" style=\"object-position: 50% 50%;object-fit: cover\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/a><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\">\n<div class=\"hds-credits\">NASA\/Don Pettit<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NASA astronaut <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/pQPosDg1OUU?si=qSiuUhTjI0PkqLfb\" rel=\"noopener\">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\">aurora borealis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/100blogs.ovh\/36\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/water-droplet-science-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-836\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/missions\/station\/iss-research\/nasa-astronaut-don-pettits-science-of-opportunity-on-space-station\/\">Explore more of what Pettit has coined \u201cscience of opportunity.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Image credit: NASA\/Don Pettit<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\/Don Pettit NASA astronaut Don Pettit 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ciencia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/100blogs.ovh\/36\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/100blogs.ovh\/36\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/100blogs.ovh\/36\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/100blogs.ovh\/36\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/100blogs.ovh\/36\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/100blogs.ovh\/36\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":837,"href":"https:\/\/100blogs.ovh\/36\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions\/837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/100blogs.ovh\/36\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/100blogs.ovh\/36\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/100blogs.ovh\/36\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}