Plant Growth in Space (NASA, International Space Station)
A tiny bubble of air hangs suspended inside a droplet of water on a plant in microgravity. Many experiments on the station study how plants grow in space. Future explorers to distant destinations will need to grow food, so understanding plant growth in the microgravity environment is important. By observing plants in this environment, scientists also have learned more about why plants on Earth have certain characteristics.
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More about space station research:
www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/index.html
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