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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:Venus by nanoakron · · Score: -1, Troll

    But the atmosphere isn't loose, it's been stripped away.

    Oh...you meant lose.

    Idiot.