Sentences with phrase «did microbial life»
says Paul Mahaffy of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. «Did microbial life ever originate on Mars, and what happened to it as the planet changed?
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Not only does microbial life survive in the Spacecraft Assembly Facility; in some cases it thrives there.
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That's why some scientists and philosophers are praying that we don't discover even simple microbial life somewhere like Mars or Europa.
Even if Mars ever supported microbial life form (s), that does not mean it could support or even could have ever supported humanlike life form.
Microbial transfer from mom to offspring happens in a lot of species, but researchers are more familiar with how species that give live birth do this than those that lay eggs, biologist Stacey Weiss of the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Wash., noted August 1 at the 53rd Annual Conference of the Animal Behavior Society.
You are dealing on Mars with what I call extremophile extreme environments on steroids,» she says, «and you don't look for microbial life with telescopes from Mars orbit.»
It did, however, temporarily suppress four distinct organisms early in life during the critical window of microbial colonization: Lactobacillus, Allobaculum, Candidatus Arthromitus, and an unnamed member of the Rikenellaceae family, which may have important metabolic and immunological interactions.
«But it may also give us a greater understanding of the invisible ecosystems of microbial life that we know are all around us, but that we don't fully comprehend,» says Neal Grantham, a Ph.D. student in statistics at NC State and lead author of a paper on the work.
In an email interview with Newsweek, lead author Gaël Choblet, from the French National Center for Scientific Research, said that while he can not speculate on the presence of alien life on Enceladus, their timescale for hydrothermal activity does bolster the case that microbial life could emerge.
By «complex life,» the researchers don't mean necessarily technologically advanced or even highly intelligent life, but rather life forms that are above the microbial level and form stable food chains like those found in ecosystems on Earth.
The discovery pushes back the earliest known existence of microbial life on land by at least 580 million years, and raises an intriguing question — where did life first emerge, on land or in the oceans?