"Probing the limits of extremophilic life in extraterrestrial environment-simulated experiments"
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
2015-06-05 v1
Abstract
The results obtained in these experiments have revealed a remarkable resistance of extremophilic bacteria and archaea against different radiation sources (VUV, solar wind simulants, X rays) whenever protected by microsized carbonaceus grains. Altogether, the collected data suggest the interesting possibility of the existence of microbial life beyond Earth and its transfer among habitable bodies, which we have called microlithopanspermia.
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@article{arxiv.1207.2098,
title = {"Probing the limits of extremophilic life in extraterrestrial environment-simulated experiments"},
author = {Claudia Lage and Gabriel Dalmaso and Lia Teixeira and Amanda Bendia and Ivan Paulino-Lima and Douglas Galante and Eduardo Janot-Pacheco and Ximena Abrevaya and Armando Azúa-Bustos and Vivian Pellizari and Alexandre Rosado},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1207.2098},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
Draft version, accepted for publication in International Journal of Astrobiology