New Studies Show Microbial Hitchikers Can Survive Millions of Years in Outer Space


	New Studies Show Microbial Hitchikers Can Survive Millions of Years in Outer Space

tabsey

5-19-2008 9:01 AM

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Microbes with interesting stories.

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5-19-2008 2:01 PM

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In a unique experiment on a galactic scale, millions of bacterial
spores have been purposely exposed to space, to see how solar radiation
affects them and the results supported the idea that not only could
life have arrived on Earth on meteorites, but that considerable
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ascomycetes, and eubacteria can live for centuries and survive
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(Carl-von-Ossietzky University, Oldenburg, Germany), Professor William
Broughton (University of Geneva, Switzerland) and their colleagues
analyzed dust samples collected by Charles Darwin and others almost 200
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