>> As an industrial scientist, a lot of what we try
to do is learn from the - the world of academics
that ask very interesting questions, internalize that,
and turn that into things that help the company, help -
help society in a broad sense, that's our mission, right?
Proctor and Gamble is all about building products
that make the lives of rural consumers better.
That requires us to engineer products in very interesting
and unique sort of ways, that physics, the understanding
to make that, is often difficult to get,
and this is a unique environment to get some very helpful
and very useful information to design those products.
Everything that we do in terms of extraction of -
of information out of the data is all about the particles
and what we can see, where they are, how they change in time.
The M1 [phonetic] experiment was a great experiment to the extent
that it provided some interesting nuances,
some interesting ideas and concepts, but it was hard to get
with kind of some of the fuzzier pictures,
it was hard to get the quantitative information
we needed.
The confocal scope brings all
that quantitative information in,
so we really think we're going to get a lot more science,
a lot more information out of the data this time around.
I'd like to be in a position when these things go
up on station, and - and are being run,
we get the best data that we can.
We can do that here on the ground,
we can get some good sense of what it's going to tell us,
make adjustments accordingly on ground
so that all the time we spent
on station is the most valuable time.
I think exploration, getting to the moon, getting to Mars,
it's about how you do these thing
with as little material as possible.
If we do our job right here, we create all
of the things we need, all the products we need,
with as little material as possible.