{"id":232,"date":"2017-06-25T10:16:39","date_gmt":"2017-06-25T17:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/belliveauc\/?p=232"},"modified":"2017-06-25T10:21:07","modified_gmt":"2017-06-25T17:21:07","slug":"tomatosphere-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/belliveauc\/2017\/06\/25\/tomatosphere-experiment\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomatosphere Experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Students took part in the Tomatophere experiment&nbsp;where they attempted to grow two different types of tomato seeds, ones that had been on board the International Space Station &nbsp;(Group H) and ones that were grown on from earth (Group G). &nbsp;They submitted their results to the Canadian Space Agency. &nbsp;Their contribution helped the CSA in the field of space farming, a critical ingredient in the design of a life support system needed to send humans to other planets. &nbsp;Here is a link to the national results: &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/tomatosphere.letstalkscience.ca\/ViewResults\">http:\/\/tomatosphere.letstalkscience.ca\/ViewResults<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_233\" style=\"width: 234px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/belliveauc\/files\/2017\/06\/IMG_12091-e1498410572892.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-233\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-233 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/belliveauc\/files\/2017\/06\/IMG_12091-e1498410572892-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-233\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">G \u2013 Control group; H \u2013 Seeds spent approximately 6 weeks on the International Space Station<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students took part in the Tomatophere experiment&nbsp;where they attempted to grow two different types of tomato seeds, ones that had been on board the International Space Station &nbsp;(Group H) and ones that were grown on from earth (Group G). &nbsp;They &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/belliveauc\/2017\/06\/25\/tomatosphere-experiment\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":698,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/belliveauc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/belliveauc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/belliveauc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/belliveauc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/698"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/belliveauc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/belliveauc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/belliveauc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions\/236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/belliveauc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/belliveauc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/belliveauc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}