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| We have 2 solar simulators (the white boxes) |
So, what happens when you want
to study the effect of sunshine on the chemicals in the ocean but it is all
cloudy and rainy? If we depend on the
real sun for our experiments and it doesn’t shine, we could be stuck on a boat
in the middle of the ocean with nothing to do!!!
To make sure that doesn’t
happen, we bring the sunshine into the lab with a machine called a solar
simulator. It has a special lamp filled
with a gas called xenon that produces light that is similar to sunlight. Maybe it should be called a solar
“similar-ator” huh?
Anyway, with this machine, we
bring the sun into the ship!! There we
can carefully measure all the chemical changes that the sun will cause when it IS shining... whether it really shines
or not.
Problem solved!!
-Bill
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| Sunshine under the Solar "Similar-ator" |
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