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Showing posts with label European. Show all posts
Showing posts with label European. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 3, 2012

The Hubble European file is already in Spain


Earth from Space Click here From now on, the European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC) in Villanueva de la CaƱada (Madrid) will host the scientific facts of Hubble . Thus, the European Archive Space Telescope will be integrated with databases of other missions of the ESA (European Space Agency), which will be available to researchers worldwide. Since 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope orbit around the Earth and has made ​​some of the greatest astronomical discoveries of our time.

Friday, June 15, 2012

European scientists experienced the plant increase in space


During the European Columbus laboratory has begin the first research, which aim to examine whether plants might produce in outer space. The research, called WAICO ("Waving and coiling of Arabidopsis Roots at Different g-levels' or ripple and roll roots of Arabidopsis at different levels-g), study the effects of weightlessness on the growth of plant roots. Toward this purpose has selected a variety of wild and genetically modified plant Arabidopsis.