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Alien microbes could survive crash-landing

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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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Ball, P. Alien microbes could survive crash-landing. Nature (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/news040830-10

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