Handwork on the workbench

Handwork on the workbench
The samples in the EXPOSE-R2 facility from space are carefully removed under a protective atmosphere at the DLR Institute of Aerospace Medicine. The several hundred organisms have spent almost two years on the outside of the ISS. The researchers want to investigate which organisms have survived the conditions in space.
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DLR (CC-BY 3.0).

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