It turns out NASA sent the Curiosity rover to Mars with 377 strains of 65 bacteria species according to a recent analysis of swabs taken before the rover launched. The discovery will go toward making future missions cleaner.
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The Curiosity rover, is, by general consensus, pretty cool. The peripatetic planetary explorer, aka the Mars Science Laboratory, not only experienced one of the most dramatic and famous landings of all time when it arrived on the Red Planet last summer, it also showed the world was probably habitable in its past. It’s only natural, […]
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Scientists have grown bacteria in a very low atmospheric pressure environment, similar to the surface of Mars.
In it’s first analysis of Martian soil, NASA’s Curiosity rover detected perchlorate salts and simple organic compounds but the probe’s science team can not yet determine if the carbon in these materials is indigenous to Mars.
