Martian Spores: How Life Could Have Flown to Earth ⚡ экспресс
Original: "Could life have been transferred from Mars to Earth? Laboratory and computational simulations of Martian ejecta"
Bacterial spores inside a rock can survive a flight from Mars to Earth — confirmed in the lab.
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Ordinary Earth bacteria can survive a journey on a rock from Mars to Earth, an experiment has shown. Powerful ultraviolet radiation and cosmic cold are no match for them if they are covered by a layer of dead comrades. And such a 'package' can arrive in just one year. Perhaps this is exactly how life reached our planet.
🎯 Among meteorites on Earth, there are fragments of Mars — pieces of crust knocked off by asteroid impacts and delivered straight to us.