Water Bears In Space
Water bears in space by emma brennand reporter bbc nature.
Water bears in space. Thousands of tardigrades also known as water bears or moss piglets were on board the beresheet spacecraft when it crash landed on the moon in april. Continue reading the main story related stories. But they sure do look cool floating in orbit.
Tiny invertebrates called water bears can survive in the vacuum of space a european space agency experiment has shown. They were travelling on an israeli. Tardigrades are microscopic animals commonly known as water bears.
A european team of researchers sent a group of living tardigrades to orbit the earth on the outside of a foton m3 rocket for 10 days. They are the first animals known to be able to survive the harsh. When the water bears returned to earth the scientists.
Tardigrades often called water bears are creatures under a millimetre long that can survive being heated to 150c and frozen to almost absolute zero.