(PhysOrg.com) -- In preparation for launch later this year, the "back shell powered descent vehicle" configuration containing NASA's Mars Science Laboratory rover, Curiosity, has been placed on the spacecraft's heat shield. ...
Space Exploration
Oct 6, 2011
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Two new research papers from The University of Manchester, working with colleagues at Sellafield Limited and the National Nuclear Laboratory show that microbes can actively colonize some of the most intensively radioactive ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 8, 2020
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Bacteria common to spacecraft may be able to survive the harsh environs of Mars long enough to inadvertently contaminate Mars with terrestrial life according to research published in the April 2010 issue of the journal Applied ...
Space Exploration
Apr 27, 2010
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If you added up all the microbes living deep below Earth's surface, the amount of biomass would outweigh all life within our oceans.
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 28, 2023
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An analysis of radar data led scientists to an unexpected discovery of two lakes located beneath 550 to 750 metres of ice underneath the Devon Ice Cap, one of the largest ice caps in the Canadian Arctic. They are thought ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 11, 2018
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(Phys.org) -- Moqui marbles, unusual balls of rock that can be found rolling around the southwestern U.S. sandstone regions, were formed roughly 2 million years ago with the help of microorganisms. This discovery by a University ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 16, 2012
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(Phys.org)—NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is driving toward a flat rock with pale veins that may hold clues to a wet history on the Red Planet. If the rock meets rover engineers' approval when Curiosity rolls up to it in coming ...
Space Exploration
Jan 15, 2013
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Where there's water there's life – even in brine beneath 60 feet of Antarctic ice, in permanent darkness and subzero temperatures.
Earth Sciences
Nov 26, 2012
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The Curiosity rover has temporarily stopped work on Mars while NASA engineers investigate a short circuit.
Space Exploration
Mar 4, 2015
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Researchers from University of California San Diego, as part of a large collaboration with scientists around the world, have developed a new search tool to help researchers better understand the metabolism of microorganisms. ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 5, 2024
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