Six BioReactors

Six filled bioreactors from the BioRock project showing culture chambers containing growing microbes in media with basalt rocks. (Image Courtesy of ESA)

jsc2019e039818 (11/18/2018) --- Preflight imagery of six filled bioreactors from the BioRock project showing culture chambers containing growing microbes in media with basalt rocks. The purpose of the Biorock investigation is to examine the effects of altered gravity on the rock/microbe/liquid system as a whole. (Image Courtesy of: ESA)