Credit: G. Scherer/ESA
Apropos [growing] trees...
This experiment is part of the European Colombus mission
"As the seeds grow, the experiment's lead scientist, Professor Guenther Scherer from the Leibniz Universitat Hannover, Germany, will observe how the level of gravity affects the characteristic spiralling and coiling root growth seen on Earth."
Biolab
Credits: ESA - D. Ducros
Biolab is designed to support biological experiments. The major objective of performing Life Sciences experiments in space is to identify the role that weightlessness plays at all levels of an organism, from the effects on a single cell up to a complex organism including humans.
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