Tardigrades, the microscopic animals sometimes called water bears, proved they can survive direct exposure to the vacuum of space by entering a dried-out, metabolically dormant state. During the FOTON ...
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Tardigrades can survive being frozen, boiled, dried out, and even left exposed to space
Microscopic animals called tardigrades survived 12 days in low Earth orbit aboard the FOTON-M3 mission in September 2007, recovering after direct exposure to the vacuum of space and, in some cases, ...
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