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Two golden orb spiders are delivered by the STS-134 crew to the International Space Station so researchers can observe the arachnids' habits in microgravity.
12 lip 2022 · Humans have taken spiders into space more than once to study the importance of gravity to their web building and prey capture behaviors.
In this video, we explore how low gravity in space affected spiders' ability to spin their webs. We showcase the results of a unique experiment that sent spi...
26 gru 2020 · Humans have taken spiders into space more than once to study the importance of gravity to their web-building. What originally began as a somewhat unsuccessful PR experiment for high school students has yielded the surprising insight that light plays a larger role in arachnid orientation than previously thought.
11 gru 2020 · In the 2011 spiders-in-space experiment, researchers studied webs the spiders spun both with and without light, and watched how the spiders oriented themselves. Webs woven in darkness turned out to be symmetric, while those built while the habitat was illuminated from the top had the same asymmetric shape as those seen on Earth.
14 gru 2020 · Now, a study of orb spiders (Trichonephila clavipes) in space has revealed that these smart arachnids can orientate themselves with light when there is no gravity to tell them which way is 'up'. Scientists have conducted myriad spider gravity experiments over the decades.
11 gru 2020 · A team of scientists from Switzerland and the United States say that spiders are able to use light to orient themselves while weaving their webs in the absence of gravity in space.
