08 June 2020
11 items from Tibet including barley, forage grass, rose rhodiola, lemon, and graphene that were carried by the re-entry module of the new manned spacecraft in early May are now available for testing in labs, China Tibet Online reported. The items are of interest in studies of the germination characteristics of seeds, crop output and plant growth cycles. Wang Junjie, a researcher at the National Astronomical Observatory of China, said the 11 items were taken to space to determine whether they would mutate in an environment of cosmic radiation, charged particles and zero gravity.
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