Sentences with phrase «past microbial life»
However, it will have a number of improvements and instruments to carry out its search for signs of past microbial life on the Red Planet.
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In one group, participants read a past article from The New York Times describing possible evidence of ancient microbial life on a Mars meteorite.
Evidence of a past environment well suited to support microbial life came within the first eight months of the 23 - month primary mission from analysis of the first sample material ever collected by drilling into a rock on Mars.
Goordial, a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Natural Resource Sciences at McGill University has spent the past four years looking for signs of active microbial life in permafrost soil taken from one of the coldest, oldest and driest places on Earth: in University Valley, located in the high elevation McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica, where extremely cold and dry conditions have persisted for over 150,000 years.
Finding past or present microbial life on Mars would without doubt be one of the greatest scientific discoveries of all time.
Over the past decade, scientists have learned that the majority of life on our planet is microbial.
The Faculty of Life Sciences at the University of Vienna has gathered an exceptional number of renowned experts over the past years with complementary research areas in microbial ecology, functional genomics and aquatic and terrestrial ecosystem research.
A mission to explore the frozen north pole of Mars as part of the search for past, or even present, microbial life has been selected by NASA for launch in 2007.