Science Nation: Extremophile Hunter

Computer screen displaying two uneven strands of light. Caption: that thrives where life would seem impossible.

With support from the National Science Foundation, Astrobiologist Richard Hoover really goes to extremes to find living things that thrive where life would seem to be impossible--from the glaciers of the Alaskan Arctic to the ice sheets of Antarctica. He thinks it is even possible that over the course of billions of years, life has spread around the solar system--a sort of cosmic cross pollination. Microbes could live in the ice deep within comets, frozen there for eons until a collision with another planet or moon delivered them to a new home.

(Source: DCMP)

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  • Science Nation: Extremophile Hunter

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