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Tardigrades pulled from Antarctic moss can survive a decade without water, temperatures near absolute zero, and a 10-day exposure to the open vacuum of space in 2007, curling into a dehydrated husk they call a tun until conditions improve
In 1982 the Soviet Union landed a probe on the surface of Venus that survived 127 minutes in heat that melts lead and pressure dense enough to crush a submarine — long enough to scan back two panoramas of flat basaltic rock under an orange-tinted sky before the heat finally ended the mission
Titan's methane should have been stripped away by sunlight within tens of millions of years — the fact that it persists after four billion years means something, possibly ice volcanoes venting from the interior, is still replenishing it, and no one yet knows what
What happened when engineers removed a century-old hydroelectric dam from a New England river, and Atlantic salmon returned to spawning grounds they had not reached in roughly 200 years?
