Spider Weaving A Web In Space
by Nasa
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Spider Weaving A Web In Space
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Nasa
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Photograph - Photograph
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Spider weaving a web in space. Golden orb (Nephila clavipes) spider on its web inside the Commercial Generic Bioprocessing Apparatus Science Insert-05 (CSI-05) spider habitat onboard the International Space Station (ISS). Launched with the STS-134 mission in 2011, CSI-05 allowed researchers to observe spiders in microgravity. Two golden orb spiders were kept onboard the ISS in a special habitat, which allowed researchers to study their web-spinning practices to see if that behaviour or the characteristics of the web they produced would change over time. The habitat was recorded throughout the spiders' time in microgravity to document any differences between those in space and the same type of spiders on the ground. The spiders' behaviour did not change
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June 30th, 2016
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