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As far as I can tell, they're just using the balloon to do two experiments at once. Don't see any relationship between the bacteria and the eclipse.
by sndean 9y ago
As far as I can tell, they're just using the balloon to do two experiments at once. Don't see any relationship between the bacteria and the eclipse.
- ramjamrodeo 9y agoIs the reduced light (and I'm assuming radiation) part of the Mars-like conditions?
- sndean 9y agoPerhaps, but AFAIK, in bacterial systems that are light-inducible you need continuous illumination of a certain wavelength to have an effect. Which the eclipse wouldn't provide. But I don't know enough about the species mention in the article. Just from the species name I'm guessing it can survive really high temps.