This Tiny Flowering Plant Can Survive The Crush of 20 Times Earth's Gravity

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Astronauts need to eat, and they need to breathe. That means, for long-duration missions, they are going to need to bring plants with them.

"We wanted to model how plants respond to changing gravity levels," says lead researcher Tatpong Tulyananda. To run their zero g experiments, the team has been using clinostats: devices that take advantage of rotation to cancel out the force of gravity and therefore simulate microgravity.Confocal Laser Scanning Microscope image of approximately 1mm-diameter watermeal plants after hypergravity exposure.

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