#extremophiles — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #extremophiles, aggregated by home.social.
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Memories from Februaries spent in the #Atacama desert. Team members would take nights off to recover from the heat and do laundry in town, pick up supplies at the hardware store.
Often we had to get those foil-faced windshield covers to protect computers that would overheat in the sun.
Driving through that otherworldly #landscape was exhilarating.
#extremophilia #chile #nasa #marsrover #seti #antofagasta #fieldscience #extremophiles #desert #mondaymemories
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#Extremophiles that can digest #radiation ☢️ and toxicities are already used to clean up everything from oil spills to the fallout of radioactive sites.
This means we could #engineer microbes that are resistant to freezing ❄️ temperatures and high levels of radiation.
Given that #microbes 🦠 helped make Earth habitable, we could use synthetic #biology to engineer microbes to speed up a similar process for #Mars 🔴 https://theconversation.com/how-to-engineer-microbes-to-enable-us-to-live-on-mars-253456
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Discovery of #stromatolite-like #biofilms in thermal waters sheds light on ancient ecosystems.
#mightymicrobes #extremophiles #thermophiles #evolution #early_life
https://phys.org/news/2025-03-discovery-stromatolite-biofilms-thermal-ancient.html
