Tuesday, 2 February 2010

Live long and prosper, Xanthoria elegans

Space is a hostile environment for living things, but small organisms on the Expose-E experiment unit outside Europe's Columbus ISS laboratory module have resisted the solar UV radiation, cosmic rays, vacuum and varying temperatures for 18 months. A certain lichen seems to be particularly happy in open space!

http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEM72XRJR4G_index_0.html

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