... ago to start pumping substantial quantities of O2 into the skies, before life could use it to evolve beyond simple microorganisms that dominated the planet at the time. Oxygen now makes up nearly 21 percent of Earth’s atmosphere. Finding such...
... Mars still possesses extant life today, its survival or detection might be hampered by the presence of Earth-based microorganisms. Therefore just because you can make somewhere habitable, doesn’t necessarily mean you should. There is little...
... or satellites in the Solar System or from exoplanets is negligibly small, unless we consider interplanetary or interstellar traveling of microorganisms.” So life could be out there, it’s just hidden beyond our view in a pocket of the Universe far...
... used to produce many other organic products by feeding it to genetically engineered organisms, such as bacteria or yeast. These microorganism’s also benefit from being considerably lighter and easier to transport to Mars than the products themselves...
... water. In the hyperarid conditions of Mars, coupled with its crippling freezing temperatures, it is just too much for microorganisms to survive, argue the authors and as such it means these brines cannot be classified as ‘Special Regions’ according...
... survive for three years in outer space conditions and could potentially survive for much longer if the microorganism colony is bigger. Floating high up in the troposphere 12 kilometres above Earth are colonies of a bacteria known as Deinococcus...