Water Bears In Space

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Water bears in space. Video screenshot by bonnie burton cnet tardigrades affectionately known as water. Tiny invertebrates called water bears can survive in the vacuum of space a european space agency experiment has shown. 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. Tardigrades are microscopic animals commonly known as water bears.
Tardigrades often called water bears are creatures under a millimetre long that can survive being heated to 150c and frozen to almost absolute zero. Water bears in space by emma brennand reporter bbc nature. They are the first animals known to be able to survive the harsh. Cnn you ve heard of men on the moon.
But they sure do look cool floating in orbit. This isn t a scientific representation of tardigrades in space.