dailytechnews.info

NASA’s Solar Sail “catches photons like wind on a 10 square-meter sail made of a thin metallic polymer.” Video after the break.

It is hoped that sails many times larger (we’re talking football fields) will eventually propel long-range missions into deep space, with the help of lasers here on Earth firing light into their sails.

[via Gizmodo]

Popularity: 2% [?]