This is a really cool story. NASA sent some spiders to space to see how they’d react to zero gravity. Initially, they didn’t respond very well, making some very chaotic webs. And then one went missing, though it probably didn’t cost $100,000 like a tool belt that accidentally floated away.
Well, the missing spider showed up again, and the other spider seems to have adapted to space, spinning normal looking webs. That’s just really, really fascinating to me.
Anyway, NASA.gov has a little video of a spider, though not much detail. And it also has an amazing picture gallery, and information on buried glaciers on Mars.
