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Published online 2 September 2004 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news040830-10
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Alien microbes could survive crash-landing
Tough bugs make interplanetary wanderings more plausible.
Bacteria could survive crash-landing on other planets, a British team has found. The result supports to the idea that Martian organisms could have fallen to Earth in meteorites and seeded life.
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