Sentences with phrase «for microbial life»

The old way to search for microbial life in the ocean, he explains, was to isolate individual species by growing them in laboratory cultures.

For example, one popular way to look for microbial life is to scoop up some soil, water, or even air, and extract all the DNA it contains.

By examining peak ring rocks closely, they hope to test models of crater formation and determine whether the crater itself was one of the first habitats for microbial life after the impact.

These newly discovered lakes are a potential habitat for microbial life and may assist scientists in the search for life beyond earth.

NASA's Mars Curiosity rover completed a Martian year — 687 Earth days — on June 24, having accomplished the mission's main goal of determining whether Mars once offered environmental conditions favorable for microbial life.

Because such chemistry provides energy for microbial life on Earth, the discovery makes Enceladus the top candidate for hosting life elsewhere in the solar system — besting even Jupiter's Europa, another icy moon with an ocean.

«An outstanding question has been whether or not the environment at the base of the ice sheet is actually suitable for microbial life to persist,» explains Brent Christner, a microbiologist at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.

If these shallow pools existed at least 700 million years earlier — or when the oceans of Mars began to evaporate — they may have bridged a crucial gap for microbial life on the planet.

Previously, the world's oldest evidence for microbial life on land came from 2.7 - 2.9 billion - year - old deposits in South Africa containing organic matter - rich ancient soils.

Wetness and warmth somehow lurked below, offering the possibility for microbial life to arise and thrive — and the plumes were a window into that netherworld.

Currently, he is informally co-advising Brankovits, who is investigating energy inputs for microbial life within the caves.

The words of environmental engineer Tom Curtis sum up the seeming disregard for microbial life beautifully.

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.»

In this role, she works with many collaborators to facilitate implementing superresolution microscopy into their research programs as well as developing novel techniques for microbial live cell imaging.

Newly identified volcanoes may have provided the perfect environment for microbial life - forms to thrive

Dione's ocean has probably survived for the whole history of the moon, and thus offers a long - lived habitable zone for microbial life.

Curiosity is climbing a layered Martian mountain and finding chemical evidence of how ancient lakes and wet underground environments changed, billions of years ago, in ways that affected their potential favorability for microbial life.

Scientists announced Thursday that measurements from NASA's Cassini spacecraft detected hydrogen gas, a key energy source for microbial life, in a plume gushing from a vast liquid water ocean buried beneath the icy shell of Saturn's moon Enceladus.

The combination of the longevity of groundwater and its acceptable acidity greatly increases the window for microbial life to form on young Mars.

In 2013, the mission found evidence of an ancient freshwater - lake environment that offered all the basic chemical ingredients for microbial life.

This information guided Phoenix, the rover deployed before Curiosity, as it searched for microbial life on Mars.

Finding boron on Mars suggests that the groundwater present in Gale Crater was most likely at a temperature and acidity suitable for microbial life.

The dramatic landing of the Curiosity rover in 2012 (viewed by at least 3.2 million people on the Internet alone) spurred the funding of another rover to search for microbial life on the planet, scheduled to launch in 2020.

The mission is investigating evidence about how and when ancient environmental conditions in the area evolved from freshwater settings favorable for microbial life, if Mars has ever hosted life, into conditions drier and less habitable.

Crew members wore treated garments and slept on treated bedsheets, after which Sierra - Sastre tested them for microbial life including aerobic bacteria, Staphylococcus aureus, mold, and yeast.

The team will then leave the lake water to rise about 50 meters into the hole and freeze; when they return next winter, they will be able to retrieve this core and examine it for microbial life.

Cassini took nearly a half - million images during its mission, which included more than 13 years in orbit around Saturn, a tour that repeatedly took the probe by the moons Titan and Enceladus, two places scientists are eager to send another spacecraft in the search for microbial life.

Analysis of that sample showed that early Mars offered environmental conditions favorable for microbial life, including the key elemental ingredients for life and a chemical energy source such as used by some microbes on Earth.

NASA's robotic explorer is examining evidence about ancient Martian environmental conditions that were favorable for microbial life.