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An impressive view

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View from the helmet camera of cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev during his spacewalk with Alexander Skvortsov to install ESA’s Expose-R2 facility outside the International Space Station.

As part of ESA’s Expose-R2 project, 46 species of bacteria, fungi and arthropods were delivered by a Progress supply ship to the International Space Station in July 2014.

The vacuum of space is sucking out the water, oxygen and other gases in the samples. Their temperature can drop to –12°C as the Station passes through Earth’s shadow, rising to 40°C at other times, and undergoing a similar process to the freeze-drying used to preserve foods.

The Expose experiments are exploring the limits of terrestrial life, whether the organisms can survive in space and how the full blast of solar radiation is affecting accompanying chemicals.

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Expose-R2 in space
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Installing Expose-R2
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Installing Expose-R2

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Installing Expose-R2
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Flying third class
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Flying third class

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