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"Survives" appears in the original title but ... “The most relevant outcome was that more than 60% of the cells of the endolithic communities studied remained
by oh_my_goodness 3y ago
"Survives" appears in the original title but ...
“The most relevant outcome was that more than 60% of the cells of the endolithic communities studied remained intact after ‘exposure to Mars’, or rather, the stability of their cellular DNA was still high,” highlights Rosa de la Torre Noetzel from Spain’s National Institute of Aerospace Technology (INTA), co-researcher on the project.
- fbdab103 3y agoIt only takes a single success to propagate a species. Sustained with a food source, presumably you could select for a new species which can survive the radiation and near vacuum.