Samantha Cristoforetti ... who now holds the record for single longest spaceflight by a woman (199 days) allowed the scientist to scan her skin and the results surprised everyone.
Posted on 07/22/2015 1:16:51 PM PDT by BenLurkin
"We use femtosecond laser pulses. We scan the skin and we get signals from the skin, particularly fluorescence, as well as another signal called second harmonic generation. So with these two signals we can build up images and get a precise look into the skin with a high resolution. The resolution is a factor of one thousand (times) better than ultrasound....."
"So far we've got interesting results from three astronauts. It seems that there is a strong production of collagen; so suddenly these astronauts have more collagen. It means there is some sort of anti-ageing effect, at least in the dermis - the lower part of the skin. And we found that the epidermis, in particular the part of the living cells, that this epidermis is shrinking, so the skin gets thinner," Koenig said.
"So far we have no explanation yet, and we are waiting for the other astronauts to figure out what's going on and maybe to try to figure out how we can protect, how we can help so that this epidermis is not shrinking," he added.
"We've seen the epidermis get thinner by nearly 20 percent. And so far we have no explanation. But this happened within six months; the question is if you go to Mars they need one or two years and we don't know yet - for sure it's not so good if the epidermis gets thinner and thinner," Koenig concluded.
(Excerpt) Read more at newseveryday.com ...
Who knew the Oval Office was in space!
Sounds like a Mars expedition will need centrifugal gravity.
Surprise? humans are not optimized for life in space. Let this be a warning to those who want to colonize low-gravity planets.
If 0bama was sent into space he’d explode.
Who’s to say? There’s only one way to be sure.....
Then Obama had better not go to space. Or his internal organs will fall out.
We weren’t “optimized” to live in the frozen tundra either and I’m sure many humans screamed the same when the trailblazers headed north
I’m betting he’s going to explode from his own greatness.
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