Sentences with phrase «which tiny microbes»

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Not many, by microbial standards — 300 cells in 1 milliliter of ice vs. 100,000 cells in seawater — but they're there, in tiny veins of liquid water that crisscross the solid ice and serve as «little houses,» Priscu said, which also contain nutrients that could feed a hungry microbe.

It can be as tiny as a microbe or as large as a museum, which challenges the ability of institutions to contain, exhibit, and house it, both conceptually and physically.

Once there, the tiny sulphate particles trigger cloud condensation, which eventually causes rain, allowing the microbes final fall back to Earth.