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ESA Conducts Mars Terraforming Experiments On ISS

Posted by samzenpus on from the give-those-people-air dept.

geegel writes "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."

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  1. Re:Mars by mweather · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    At this point we don't even have an idea when humans will finally get there.

    We had a pretty good idea until a few days ago.