Hey there! 🌟 Have you ever wondered what would happen if we sent flower seeds into space? 🚀 Well, here’s an amazing story just for you.
Back in 2002, China launched a spacecraft called Shenzhou-3. But guess what? Along with the astronauts, they sent 200 peony seeds into space! 🌸 These seeds orbited around Earth for six days and 18 hours. That’s almost a whole week of floating in space!
After their space adventure, the seeds were brought back to Earth and planted in Heze City, known as the peony capital of China. Over the years, those 200 seeds have grown into 400 beautiful “space peonies”! 🌺 Isn’t that cool?
So what do these space peonies look like today? Well, they are bigger and more colorful than regular peonies. Some have unique shapes and colors that you’ve never seen before! The time they spent in space changed them in amazing ways.
If you ever visit Heze City, you can see these special flowers in the Baihua Garden. 🌼 People from all over come to admire their beauty and learn about their incredible journey from space to Earth.
Isn’t science awesome? Who knows what other amazing things we can discover when we combine space and nature! 🌎✨
Reference(s):
cgtn.com
