{"id":768227,"date":"2023-10-06T05:41:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T09:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=768227"},"modified":"2023-10-06T05:41:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T09:41:00","slug":"hypergravity-odyssey-of-earths-tiniest-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=768227","title":{"rendered":"Hypergravity odyssey of Earth\u2019s tiniest plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"Microscopic image of watermeal plant after hypergravity exposure\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The smallest flowering plant on Earth might become a nutritious foodstuff for astronauts in the future, as well as a highly efficient source of oxygen. To help test their suitability for space, floating clumps of watermeal \u2013 individually the size of pinheads \u2013 were subjected to 20 times normal Earth gravity aboard ESA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Enabling_Support\/Space_Engineering_Technology\/Ten_years_of_exploring_hypergravity_with_ESA_s_centrifuge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Large Diameter Centrifuge<\/a> by a team from <a href=\"https:\/\/mahidol.ac.th\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mahidol University<\/a> in Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/one.esa.int\/Enabling_Support\/Space_Engineering_Technology\/Hypergravity_odyssey_of_Earth_s_tiniest_plant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hypergravity odyssey of Earth\u2019s tiniest plant<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The smallest flowering plant on Earth might become a nutritious foodstuff for astronauts in the future, as well as a highly efficient source of oxygen. To help test their suitability&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-768227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ESA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=768227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=768227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=768227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=768227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}