Talk:EXPOSE

Latest comment: 8 years ago by BatteryIncluded in topic Window contamination

Window contamination edit

On April 2014 the media went nuts reporting "sea plankton" growing on the windows of the Russian module of the ISS; the only reliable report is this paper submitted on April 2014, describing the growth of films on some of the the windows of the EXPOSE-R experiment mounted on the exterior of the Zvezda module: [1]. Post-flight investigations revealed the discolouration to be caused by a homogenous film of cross-linked organic polymers at the inside of the windows. I will wait for more results (EXPOSE-R) to be published and figure out the context and implications. Cheers, BatteryIncluded (talk) 04:23, 2 May 2015 (UTC)Reply