Sentences with phrase «if microbial life»

The underground ocean of Saturn's moon Enceladus harbors an abundance of molecular hydrogen, which could be an important source of food if microbial life exists there.

Not exact matches

Curiosity touched down on the night of Aug. 5, 2012, kicking off a mission to determine if Mars has ever been capable of supporting microbial life.

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.

If groundwater consistently fed these lakes, pools, and puddles, as rock formations hint, it's possible that microbial life could have taken shelter there.

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.

Now researchers in California and Virginia have identified symbiotic bacteria living on amphibians» skins that protects them from the deadly fungal disease, and later this summer the scientists will collect some of the microbial samples, culture them in the lab, and use the product to inoculate some frogs in California's Sierra Nevada to see if the approach stops chytrid in the wild.

If we can collect a sample of the water, we may determine whether microbial life exists, how it evolved, and how it continues to live in this cold environment with no connection to the atmosphere.»

«If there is microbial life in the lake, it should be something unusual,» says Lipenkov.

If there were multiple origins of life on Earth, the microbial descendants of another genesis could be all around us, forming a possible shadow biosphere.

«If there is abundant microbial life on Mars, I suspect that we will find it within 20 years — if it is enough like our form of lifIf there is abundant microbial life on Mars, I suspect that we will find it within 20 years — if it is enough like our form of lifif it is enough like our form of life.

Biotech guru J. Craig Venter proposes that if we find microbial life on Mars, we could sequence its genome locally, transmit the information and rebuild the organism here on Earth.

«If there is microbial life in these lakes, it has been under ice for a very long time, so it must have evolved in isolation.

If we can collect a sample, we can determine whether microbial life exists in order to understand how it evolved and how it continues in this cold environment with no sunlight or energy.»

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is expected to spend at least two years exploring Gale Crater to determine if the region could have ever supported microbial life.

Scientists think Titan may also be able to support microbial life (though if that life teems in the hydrocarbon seas, it will be very different than organisms here on Earth).

Data from the instrument can improve the understanding of the history of Martian climate and if conditions on early Mars may have been conducive for supporting microbial life.