<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><div class=""></div></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><div class=""><font color="#333333" face="Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font color="#333333" face="Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><font size="5" class=""><b class="">Cold Atom Laboratory (CAL) </b></font></div><font color="#333333" face="Open Sans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="4" class="">NASA is about to launch the coldest place on Earth - the Cold Atom Laboratory (CAL) - into orbit, where astronauts will use it to create never-before-seen conditions with temperatures </font></span><a href="https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=6765" style="color: rgb(0, 86, 137); text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-out; -webkit-transition: color 0.2s ease-out; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" class="">100 million times colder</a><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> than the depths of space. </span><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16.639999389648438px;" class="">A facility designed to fly aboard the International Space Station, the Cold Atom Laboratory, or CAL, will make use the space station's unique microgravity environment to observe quantum phenomena that would otherwise be undetectable from Earth. The laboratory will be available for use by multiple scientific investigators and is designed to be maintained on orbit. </span><div class=""><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16.639999389648438px;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16.639999389648438px;" class="">The Cold Atom Laboratory, which is scheduled for launch and installment on the International Space Station in April 2017, will also serve as an experiment in the use of laser-cooled atoms for future quantum sensors.</span></div><div class=""></div></body></html>