Adhesives that, like gecko feet, are dry, powerful, reusable, and self-cleaning could help robots climb walls or hold together electrical components, even in the harsh conditions of outer space.
The other, the American space shuttle Atlantis, is but a temporary visitor, unable to sustain human life in the harsh conditions of outer space for more than a couple of weeks at a time.
This paper explores those extraterrestrial conditions through the interactions between the extraordinarily harsh environment of outer space, the sensations that humans encounter in space, and the qualities of a habitat that physically interposes itself between the two.
It's even able to survive the harsh radiation of outer space.
It's not just the harsh environs of outer space that tardigrades can survive in.
It also suggests a new way that creatures could survive the harsh conditions of outer space and may even lead to new space travel technology for humans.
A European team launched tardigrades into the harsh extremes of outer space on the outside of a rocket, and they returned to Earth alive!
The harsh beauty of the Outer Hebrides is a landscape that has lured many photographers, yet the latest of those to explore the islands was not there to photograph the views, but to document a manufacturing industry that is known around the world.
That's a big problem for the military and NASA, which need their technology to work in radiation-harsh environments such as outer space.
Its straight, harsh, white and liver-coloured outer coat covers a dense undercoat, which is heavy in winter and very thin in summer.
