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A group of four researchers, one woman and three men, gather around a complex piece of scientific equipment in a laboratory. The man on the right, with blond hair, points to a component of the intricate optical setup. The woman on the left, with long curly hair, smiles as she looks on. A whiteboard covered in handwritten equations and diagrams is visible in the background.

Cold Atom Laboratory Team Displays Ground-Based Testbed

Members of the Cold Atom Laboratory team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory are seen here with their ground-based testbed, which can reliably create a Bose-Einstein condensate. Pictured from left to right, Anita Sengupta, Ethan Elliott, Rob Thompson and Markus Krutzik. JPL is developing the Cold Atom Laboratory sponsored by the International Space Station Program at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. The Biological & Physical Sciences Division of NASA's Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington manages the Fundamental Physics Program.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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