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Space Sniffer: NASA's E-Nose Ensures Clean Air for Crews

For long-duration space missions, whether to the International Space Station or to Mars and beyond, it's important to be able to ensure clean air for crew members to breathe. The JPL Electronic Nose (ENose) is a full-time, continuously operating event monitor designed to detect air contamination from spills and leaks in the crew habitat. It fills the long-standing gap between onboard alarms and complex analytical instruments. ENose provides rapid, early identification and quantification of atmospheric changes caused by chemical species to which it has been trained. ENose can also be used to monitor cleanup processes after a leak or a spill.

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    00:00:02 as we know the space station is um it's a closed environment it's been up there for 16 years now so there's lots of there's bacteria there are fungi [Music] microbes Enos is a device we have we've built that can go around and detect in different areas um microbial content it's interesting from a scientific standpoint we can look at

    00:00:31 the floor and the Fauna of the the space station and see how it's changing how things are becoming more virulent or or evolving and on the other side it's just interesting from a public health standpoint to understand what the environment is but the cool thing with this as well is it's also done with support from companies on ground who use this technology in hospitals or other

    00:00:50 settings on ground so we're also this project has many iterations it started with a basic model and it's constantly expanding to address different types of samples basically it's a long tube with it's got a a sensor set it's electronic box and there's a few different nozzles so one is very easy to attach to a flat surface like the front of a rack looks like a

    00:01:15 huge suction cup um and then another attachment to reach behind the racks is a long nozzle also with a little nozzle on the very [Music] end I think now it's interesting going to talk to commercial users is that people are excited that they can now use it and access it because for so long it was not something that was accessible to

    00:01:37 everybody and I think that's really changing now and that's really exciting and I think that will be a huge impetus for even new developments that we never saw coming subscribe for more space [Music]