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Posted by jburk to Life on Mars at March 16, 2004 11:20 AM
A study of microscopic organisms that inhabit the park's hot springs may help NASA researchers in their efforts to find life on Mars. The organisms, called thermophiles, have lived in the boiling waters of springs in Yellowstone National Park for billions of years.TrackBack URL for this entry:
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Though this is true we still do not fully understand how long it takes life under the right conditions to become alive from in-organic compounds.
Posted by: Harold LaValley at March 16, 2004 11:54 AM
Microbes and bacteria exist in hotsprings, thermal vents, subsurface aquafers, artic and Lake Vostok. African dust storms from the Bodele and Toshka depressions transfer microbes to Antiqua Island. The gold mines in Africa, too, have microbes and bacteria that live deep within the mining facilities underground. While life--may have--evolved upon early Mars--it may exist in underground caverns. If Mars is undergoing a 'global warming' then subsurface water may already be seeping along fractures and fissuers--with microbes and bacteria from those depths.
Posted by: J Weikle at March 16, 2004 09:37 PM