From Deep Blue Mud, Unexpected Life Emerges
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The discovery of microbes thriving in deep-sea mud with extreme conditions has implications for understanding life on other celestial bodies like Europa or Enceladus, and challenges our current understanding of 'uninhabitable' environments.
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ssalmon74
about 2 months ago
parameters for life. If microbes can thrive in a sustained pH of 12, without sunlight, and with scarce nutrients, it means we must seriously re-evaluate every so-called "uninhabitable" environment.This deep-sea mud might be the template for life on places like Europa or Enceladus, where life would have to rely on chemosynthesis in alkaline conditions beneath an ice shell. The universe just got a bit more crowded
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