Scientists believe that the geckos on the “Foton-M” died due to an unknown space factor – Ribbon Kazan

Scientists believe that geckos to “Foton-M” died because of the unknown factor space

Scientists from the Institute of Biomedical Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences did not find the cause, which resulted in the death of geckos sent into space aboard the “Photon-M”.

The head of the project on biological spacecraft “Foton-M” Vladimir Sychev explained that space geckos were in exactly the same conditions as in the laboratory in the world, so the cause of death is not clear. Perhaps the lizards killed an unknown space factor. Scientists from Russia also can not determine the exact date of the death of geckos, their views differed, with some claiming that the lizards died a week before the landing, and the latter is called a period of several days.

The situation is complicated by the fact that during the experiment on “Foton-M” stopped working camcorder. Last footage dated the fifth of August.