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Saturday 7 March 2015

NASA seeks to understand vision changes due to microgravity

Astronaut Micheal Hopkins performs an ultrasound scan on his eye (Image: NASA)


Having evolved under the pressure of Earth's gravity, it isn't surprising that our bodies experience adverse physiological affects after long periods in low-Earth orbit. NASA hopes that a new experiment, the Fluid Shifts investigation, set to launch to the ISS later this year, will shed light on the causes of vision loss and deformation of the structure to the eye often suffered by astronauts over the course of a stay aboard the ISS... Continue Reading NASA seeks to understand vision changes due to microgravity



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