NASA tests new camera with effervescent bubble experiment

WASHINGTON, July 28 (UPI) -- A NASA astronaut showed off the International Space Station's new ultra-HDTV camera with a video of an effervescent being added to a floating water bubble.

The video, posted to the ReelNASA YouTube account, shows NASA astronaut Terry Virts adding an effervescent antacid to a weightless water bubble and filming the results with the space station's new RED Epic Dragon camera, which the video description said is "capable of recording four times the resolution of normal high-definition cameras."

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."