tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7016967256156352513.post-1107710512879611132007-09-17T12:18:00.000+02:002007-09-17T15:54:39.767+02:00<a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_zt5hpmIYB4A/Ru5rnQQe2BI/AAAAAAAAABg/vDEsTIXwxzI/s1600-h/2+macrobiotustunnor.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5111140949235259410" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_zt5hpmIYB4A/Ru5rnQQe2BI/AAAAAAAAABg/vDEsTIXwxzI/s320/2+macrobiotustunnor.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><div>Last Friday, the FOTON-M3 satelite was successfully sent into orbit, and the Biopan-6 platform was opened, exposing tardigrades of the TARDIS experiment to open space. The satelite will now orbit the earth at a 90 min. interval until 26 September, when the FOTON capsule hopefully lands in an area near the Kazakhstan-Russian border. Read more about the FOTON-M3 mission at <a href="http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMQDB13J6F_index_0.html" modo="false">http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMQDB13J6F_index_0.html</a></div><div></div><div></div><div>While waiting for the tardigrades to complete their trip in space, you may want to find out some more about tardigrades. Here are some great sites on the web:<br /><a href="http://www.uea.ac.uk/~b444219/main.htm">Tardigrade Newsletter</a><br /><a href="http://www.tardigrades.com/" target="_blank">Martin Mach's Monthly Journal on Tardigrada</a><br /><a href="http://tardigrades.bio.unc.edu/">Goldstein Lab</a></div>K. Ingemar Jönsson, Docenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02505827839837128148noreply@blogger.com