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Antarctic fungi survive Martian conditions on the International Space Station (www.agenciasinc.es)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Perchlorates in martian soil ?? potential source of energy and oxygen! Rule of thumb - if a reaction is thermodynamically favourable, but there's some kinetic barrier, some microbes could evolve to exploit it. Life doesn't have to be as we know it.

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