Elements of Webb: Beryllium Part 2 Ep04
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- Visualizations by:
- Walt Feimer
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- Written by:
- Sophia Roberts
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- Edited by:
- Sophia Roberts
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- Produced by:
- Sophia Roberts
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- Technical support:
- Aaron E. Lepsch
- View full credits
So Utah is home to many valuable materials – copper, magnesium, uranium, gold and silver. But most of the world’s beryllium is mined here. And engineers chose beryllium for Webb’s mirrors because it is lightweight, it is strong and it is dimensionally stable.
We are actually standing on the beryllium ore seam. Beryllium is in the volcanic ash dust. It was hydrothermally deposited millions of years ago and then coved by volcanic rock. We have to remove the volcanic rock on top of the ore seam and then use a scraper and a bulldozer to extract the ore that we’re standing on top of. 90% of the beryllium that was mined in the world came from this deposit.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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Animators
- Walt Feimer (KBR Wyle Services, LLC) [Lead]
- Adriana Manrique Gutierrez (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
- Bailee DesRocher (USRA)
- Jacquelyn DeMink (USRA)
- Jonathan North (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
- Krystofer Kim (KBRwyle)
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Writer
- Sophia Roberts (Advocates in Manpower Management, Inc.) [Lead]
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Editors
- Sophia Roberts (Advocates in Manpower Management, Inc.) [Lead]
- Michael McClare (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
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Producer
- Sophia Roberts (Advocates in Manpower Management, Inc.) [Lead]
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Drone operator
- Scott Rogers (None) [Lead]
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Videographers
- Michael McClare (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
- Michael P. Menzel (AIMM)
- Sophia Roberts (Advocates in Manpower Management, Inc.)
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Production assistant
- Michael P. Menzel (AIMM)
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Technical support
- Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET Systems, Inc.) [Lead]
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Subject expert
- Greg Gregory (None)
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