The Advantages of Sending Jellyfish to Space

Two species of jellyfish were exposed to micro gravity for nine days aboard the space shuttle during the sls-1 mission. Their offspring had a much more difficult time orientating themselves and moving Then earth born jellyfish have something called gravitoreceptors. They're small crystals of calcium sulfate stored in pockets surrounded by sensitive hair cells. When the jellyfish move the crystals like rolled the bottom of the pocket and they tell the hair cells which way is up the space babies Had normal gravitoreCEPTors but The crystals in the jellyfish inner ears from space babies did not.