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Testing done at Wright-Patterson made Perseverance and the search for life on Mars possible

This image taken by NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance shows tracks from the rover’s first drive. It also shows an area that was scoured clean by the craft’s descent stage rockets — the lighter-colored area shown near the center-top. Testing done at AFRL’s Materials and Manufacturing ensured the landing craft’s protective coating would survive being blasted by that debris. (Photo courtesy of NASA)
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A gauge stand measures the effect of an explosion during the snow mitigation test on March 18, 2021, at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska. The foil pieces are used to measure the blast caused by the explosion. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Danielle Sukhlall)
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U.S. Air Force Airmen from the 354th Civil Engineer Squadron Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) flight, the Iceman Spark Innovation team, Air Force Reach Laboratory innovation team, and other partners set off an explosion for the EOD snow mitigation test on March 18, 2021, at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska. The experiment tested the use of snow to mitigate the damaging effects of explosions in an arctic environment. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Danielle Sukhlall)
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U.S. Air Force Airmen from the 354th Civil Engineer Squadron Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Flight prepare bags for the snow mitigation experiment on March 18, 2021, at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska. The experiment tested the use of snow to help mitigate explosive effects. Because of Alaska’s arctic environment, the usual method of using water to reduce blast wave peak pressures is often impractical. Therefore, Icemen Spark and EOD sought to use a more readily available material: snow. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Danielle Sukhlall)
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Diane Buhrmaster, engineer at the Air Force Research Laboratory's Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, received the 2020 Brigadier General Wilma Vaught Visionary Leadership Award in the Civilian Category. (U.S. Air Force courtesy photo)
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AFRL researchers demonstrate record-breaking RF isolator performance in ultra-compact device

From the left to right, Drs. Derek A. Bas, Piyush J. Shah and Michael R. Page. In the tweezers, Bas is holding a chip that contains an array of four isolators. A state-of the-art commercial RF isolator has a much greater size and weight than the AFRL device. (U.S. Air Force photo/Dr. Michael Wolf)
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A sample is loaded into the Bruker Atomic Force Microscope system capable of performing nanoscale imaging experiments. (U.S. Air Force photo/Spencer Deer)
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Dr. Nicholas Glavin, (left) research scientist at the Air Force Research Laboratory and David Moore, research scientist at UES, Inc. loading the sample into the analysis chamber. (U.S. Air Force photo/Spencer Deer)
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Air Force ups the ante on supersonic rain erosion testing

1st Lt. Tyler Despard (front) and Kameron Hayes monitor testing on the Supersonic Rain Erosion test rig. (U.S. Air Force photo/Greg Lanchman)
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Air Force ups the ante on supersonic rain erosion testing

1st Lt. Tyler Despard works on hardware upgrades to the Supersonic Rain Erosion Test Rig. (U.S. Air Force photo/Greg Lanchman)
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Dr. Richard A. Vaia, Chief Scientist at AFRL's Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, is a member of the National Academy of Engineering Class of 2020. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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(Thermoplastic) Flower in the Sun. Stimuli-responsive polymers have gained increasing attention for their applications ranging from soft robotic grippers to actuators. By controlling strain within thin thermoplastic sheets, these small grippers can transform into three-dimensional shapes based on a photothermal response and withstand loads more than 24,000 times their own mass. (Courtesy photo/Amber Hubbard)
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Carbon Nano Shish Kabob. This science as art piece is created by the scanning electron microscope image. Carbon nanotubes were deposited on carbon fibers via chemical vapor deposition method. The overgrowth of carbon nanotubes on carbon fibers created the shish kabob like carbon nanostructure. (Courtesy photo/Yixin Ren)
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