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Flying fish in 0g

6 November 2001

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Flying fish on 31st parabollic flight campaign

On ESA's 31st parabolic flight campaign, students from the University of Lund, Sweden, recorded the motion of four fish under various lighting conditions - from above, from below, from the side and without any light.

Under microgravity the fish tended to align themselves so that the light came from above. When there was no light, the fish used pressure sensors on their body to align themselves with respect to rods installed in the aquarium.

(Photo: ESA)

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ESA astronaut André Kuipers is interviewed in 0g by TV journalist Michal Locher from German TV news programme Sat1.

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The team for ESA's 31st parabolic flight campaign in front of the Airbus A-300 'Zero-G'.