🔆 Why Scientists Study Tardigrades 🦠 📍 Tardigrades (also called water bears): Tiny, resilient, 8-legged organisms. 📍 Space experiment: Sent to the ISS to study their survival and resilience. 📍 Key question: How do tardigrades survive extreme space conditions like radiation, temperature changes, and vacuum? 📍 Purpose: Discovering insights for human survival in space and crop protection on Earth. #spacescience #tardigrades #iss