The residents of the International Space Station have just beamed down a beautiful and trippy video of them playing with colorful liquids in space.
The astronauts who live on the satellite have unique lives: they have to be strapped to their toilets to relieve themselves, they exercise on a space treadmill, and sometimes sleep standing up. And now, thanks to an incredibly high-definition space camera, they can make videos of all the cool experiments they do in space, sometimes just for fun.
Their latest video shows ISS Commander Scott Kelly experimenting with adding different colored dyes to a ball of water, carrying an effervescent tablet. The effect is an otherworldly sphere of color that pulses as it travels through the air. The bubble changes color slowly, as different dyes are added to it and the molecules of color make their way through the "bubble."
While "bubbles" are usually a gas surrounded by a liquid, this would resemble an antibubble, wherein a sphere of liquid is surrounded by a gas.
The video is part of a new series of videos from the space station using a 4K camera, called the RED Epic Dragon, which films at resolutions up to 6,144 x 3,160 pixels. For comparison, the average digital resolution at your movie theatre is 2,000 to 4,000 pixels wide, and an HD TV is more like 1,920 x 1,080 pixels wide. The RED Epic Dragon camera was also used to film the famously high-resolution Hobbit trilogy, which one person I know referred to as "highly creepy."
You can get your own RED Epic Dragon starter kit for a mere $58,000. Don't drop it.
Other RED Epic Dragon videos from the Space Station have included this incredible video of a day in the life on the Space Station.
Watch the new space station video here.
