zaterdag 17 december 2011

why martian microbes won’t outnumber earth’s

why martian microbes won’t outnumber earth’s: A recently trumpeted paper on astrobiology did some very interesting modeling in a search for places on Mars where some very tough terrestrial microorganisms could survive and came to a very surprising conclusion. It appears that some 3.2% of the red planet could be habitable by volume, which would make it more friendly to life [...]...