That looks frightening.
The astronauts are getting ready for the private Polaris Dawn mission and have recently been confused by their strange eyes.
"What's going on with the Polaris Dawn crew member's eye?" asked a confused person on the internet.
These astronauts don't owe their looks to a bad job, but they do owe their cool contact lens.
Anna Menon, one of the mission's astronauts and lead space operations engineer at SpaceX, provided a clear close up of the cyberpunk looking contacts. In the video, you can see a halo-like ring of light that outlines the inside of her pupils, with a noticeable but small white rectangle reflecting brightly within it, in what is probably responsible for the white speck in the eye in pictures from afar.
The "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" theme plays in the video as Menon says "eye will be back..."
The astronauts will wear specialized contact lenses to measureraocular pressure. It's part of a University of Colorado Boulder study into a recent discovery.
Changes in the eye's shape and structure can be caused by SANS, which can make astronauts' vision blurry. Its long term effects aren't well known, nor are its causes, but scientists hope to measure how the eye adjusts once it enters microgravity by having the astronauts wear smart contact lens.
According to the current theory, fluid shifts in the eye and brain are the cause of SANS symptoms.
If the data doesn't pan out, the contact lens makes a unique piece of astronauts fashion.
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