(1) 2007 A study by the European Space Agency found that moss piglets, or tardigrades, a small segmented animal with eight legs, were able to survive for 10 days in open space using only their own natural protection.
(2) The US space advocacy group the Planetary Society has used the Russian mission to carry its Living Interplanetary Flight Experiment (LIFE) that will investigate whether plant seeds, hardy bacteria and tough little creatures called tardigrades, or water-bears, can survive the extreme conditions of spaceflight and so support theories on how life might spread through the cosmos.
(3) Maybe that’s where those indestructible tardigrades came from.
Tardigradous
Definition:
(a.) Moving slowly; slow-paced.
Example Sentences:
(1) 2007 A study by the European Space Agency found that moss piglets, or tardigrades, a small segmented animal with eight legs, were able to survive for 10 days in open space using only their own natural protection.
(2) The US space advocacy group the Planetary Society has used the Russian mission to carry its Living Interplanetary Flight Experiment (LIFE) that will investigate whether plant seeds, hardy bacteria and tough little creatures called tardigrades, or water-bears, can survive the extreme conditions of spaceflight and so support theories on how life might spread through the cosmos.
(3) Maybe that’s where those indestructible tardigrades came from.