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French Aujourd’hui comme tous les samedis, c’est corvée ménage sur la Station. Comme sur un navire, il faut tout briquer pour garder l’ensemble en bon état ! Mark a dégainé l'aspirateur, ici pour s'attaquer à la paroi lisse et quasiment dénuée de câbles et d’équipements du laboratoire européen, mais il s'est aussi occupé des murs plus encombrés. Les poussières ont tendance à finir leur flottaison dans les coins et près des bouches d’aération, donc on prête une attention particulière à ces endroits – on a tendance d’ailleurs à y retrouver, le samedi, les objets qu’on laisse échapper en semaine. Un petit côté Ghostbusters non ?
English Saturday is cleaning day, and Mark demonstrates micro-g vacuum cleaning in the nicely tidy European Columbus laboratory. We clean carefully because dust never settles as it does on Earth, and floats around for longer and gets stuck in the corners or near air vents (or until Mark gets it in the vacuum cleaner!). We tend to find lots of “misfloated” objects on Saturday that we lose throughout the week! Who you gonna call? Dustbusters!
Credits: ESA/NASA–T. Pesquet