• Question: whats the most exciting experiment you have ever done?

    Asked by 568expd44 to Jack, Flavia, Giuditta, Craig on 7 Nov 2015. This question was also asked by Esme :), Ella, Cammy_Caldwell1, doglover12charlie.
    • Photo: Jack Carlyle

      Jack Carlyle answered on 7 Nov 2015:

      A few years ago, I was lucky enough to visit an observatory in the south of France. I got to control HUGE telescopes and take all kinds of pictures of stars and galaxies. It was incredible!

    • Photo: Giuditta Perversi

      Giuditta Perversi answered on 12 Nov 2015:

      It was probably the very first time I was at the ESRF synchrotron in France!
      It’s basically this big X-ray source, really powerful, with crazy instruments around it. We were using a new equipment in the new high-pressure instrument: putting a small crystal under pressure between to diamond, while you cool it down at the same time and looking at how the atoms were placed in space with the X-rays.
      It was really exciting because usually you tend to do one thing at the time, either the pressure or the low temperature, so we were testing a whole new set up!

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