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Anaerobic Microbes May Point to Life on Mars

Posted by michael on from the weird-science dept.

Komarosu writes: "The BBC has posted a bit of news about a colony of microbes that have survived 200 meters below the earth's surface in a hot spring. The harsh conditions that are found here could prove a comparison to whats found on Mars. They hope to use these finding to target the search for microbes on Mars."

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  1. Our definition of life is flawed. by AnalogBoy · · Score: 3, Interesting

    We're too biased IMO. Who knows? Life may be able to evolve in billions of different ways, using processes we haven't yet discovered. Im not a evolutionary scientist, of course. But 80 years or so ago the thought of life on Europa or Titan would have seemed far-fetched. Now its a very real possibility. 80 years ago microbes could never live on the moon. The surveyor probe lens recovered by Apollo 12 at the Ocean of Storms proved that it was possible.