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ESA’s FLEX Mission Reveals the Secret Glow of Plants

00:06:30 Plants may look still and silent, but every leaf is constantly responding to its environment.As plants photosynthesise, they emit an incredibly faint glow called fluorescence. Invisible to our eyes, this signal can reveal how plants are using sunlight and how they respond to heat, drought, pests and other environmental stresses.ESA’s Fluorescence Explorer, or FLEX, will detect this faint signal from space. Using its highly sensitive…

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Heat, pollution, diseases: Plants are constantly exposed to great stress. How healthy they are could be a weak signal. This is exactly what a satellite wants to make visible.

·Düsseldorf, Germany
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Here you will find information on the topic "Space Travel". Read now "How satellite «Flex» should make stress of plants visible".

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Heat, pollution, diseases: Plants are constantly exposed to great stress. How healthy they are could be a weak signal. This is exactly what a satellite wants to make visible.

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The Flex satellite will be launched this night from Kourou in French Guiana. It will have to detect the stress of plants before it becomes visible. Belgian scientists have participated in its development and will validate and analyze its data, which must provide information on the stress of ecosystems and agricultural yield. ...

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A European satellite will monitor from space the extent to which forests and crops suffer from drought or other stress.

·Hilversum, Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
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Heat, pollution, diseases: Plants are constantly exposed to great stress. How healthy they are could be a weak signal. This is exactly what a satellite wants to make visible.

·Bamberg, Germany
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The European Space Agency broke the news in Paris, France on Monday, September 14, 2026.
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