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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.
The microgravity of space impacts everything from the human body to water, and after sending arachnid astronauts to the ISS, scientists found that goes for spider webs too!
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 · The two spiders which were sent to space were quite hardy in their new gravity-free homes: The male survived zero gravity for 65 days and was still alive after returning to Earth, while the female built 34 webs and moulted three times – both of which are space records.
As part of a global classroom experiment, two golden orb spiders (Nephila clavipes) lived in space and on the International Space Station (ISS) from May 16 to July 21, 2011. All videos, photos, teacher information, and other resources needed to re-create the investigation are available on BioEd Online so your students can conduct the experiment ...
