bob10
28th August 2020, 09:59 AM
IN 2018, A spacecraft departed the International Space Station carrying unusual cargo: colonies of bacteria that had spent years hanging out in space. These intrepid microbes were the final samples to be returned to Earth as part of the Tanpopo mission, a Japanese astrobiology experiment studying the effects of the space environment on simple organisms. If the microbes survived long-term exposure to the vacuum, it would be a significant boost for a controversial theory known as panspermia (https://www.wired.com/2010/11/necropanspermia/), which suggests that life hitches a ride between planets on asteroids, comets, and space dust
.A Ball of Bacteria Survived for 3 Years ... in Space! | WIRED (https://www.wired.com/story/a-ball-of-bacteria-survived-for-3-years-in-space/?bxid=5cc9e26e3f92a477a0ea0693&cndid=52475003&esrc=subscribe-page&source=EDT_WIR_NEWSLETTER_0_DAILY_ZZ&utm_brand=wired&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_content=A&utm_mailing=WIR_Daily_082620&utm_medium=email&utm_source=nl&utm_term=list1_p4)
.A Ball of Bacteria Survived for 3 Years ... in Space! | WIRED (https://www.wired.com/story/a-ball-of-bacteria-survived-for-3-years-in-space/?bxid=5cc9e26e3f92a477a0ea0693&cndid=52475003&esrc=subscribe-page&source=EDT_WIR_NEWSLETTER_0_DAILY_ZZ&utm_brand=wired&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_content=A&utm_mailing=WIR_Daily_082620&utm_medium=email&utm_source=nl&utm_term=list1_p4)