Fruit Fly (IMAGE)

NASA/Johnson Space Center

Fruit Fly

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This is a fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, such as those planned for use as model organisms for variable gravity studies aboard the International Space Station.

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Image Credit: NASA Ames Research Center

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