Sentences with phrase «possible microbial life»

While, for now, these questions are still uncertain, field research in places like Rotorua are of extreme importance to advance our knowledge of the limits of life on Earth and possible microbial life on Mars.

The frigid satellite has long been thought of as candidate for possible microbial life due to its vast subsurface ocean of water.

But NASA, interested in the similarities of Vida's brine pool to possible microbial life on Mars or Jupiter's moon Europa, will support a return expedition in 2004.

Not exact matches

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

The initial 2016 phase of the mission would carry an orbiter designed to sniff out possible sources of methane and other trace gases that might signal the presence of microbial life on Mars.

According to the researchers, the proposed technique could be possible to perform with instrumentation already planned for the NASA 2020 rover mission to explore areas of Mars where the ancient environment could have fostered microbial life.

In one group, participants read a past article from The New York Times describing possible evidence of ancient microbial life on a Mars meteorite.

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.

And researchers say it's still possible that the martian surface contains pockets of methane - producing microbial life.

«The microbial world is one of the last frontiers of exploration on our planet, and we're using microscopes together with genomics to learn as much as possible about this invisible life.»

Suddenly, it was possible to scan the overall composition of habitats as diverse as stagnant bogs and frozen tundra, producing a detailed portrait of the microbial life they held.