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NASA’s isolation experts: Lockdown lessons from space

Brian Owens · May 28, 2020 ·

Scientists at the US agency offer advice about remote working, social isolation and quarantine.

Scott Bolton knows a thing or two about distance. He is the principal investigator of NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter, and at the best of times his experiment is more than 500 million kilometres away, orbiting a gas giant in the middle of our Solar System. Even when travelling at the speed of light, messages and data usually take around 45 minutes to get to and from the spacecraft — bringing new meaning to the idea of working remotely. Read more in Nature.

Nature coronavirus, covid-19, International Space Station, Juno, NASA, space

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