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The video shows the effervescent bubble shooting off smaller water bubbles as the tablet dissolves and Virts adds and subtracts water from it with a syringe.
NASA heralded the camera's first success in a post on its website.
"This is a huge leap in camera technology for spaceflight," said Rodney Grubbs, program manager for NASA's imagery experts program at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. "These cameras have large sensors capable of very high resolution imaging at high frame rates."