| Re: Mars touchdown today
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Originally Posted by WI Crippler  I don't know that those microorganisms would survive in the Martian atmosphere or soil. We'd have to make them little microorganism spacesuits.  | On one of the first Moon Landings the astronauts left microorganisms on one of the instruments by accident and left it on the moon. Years later on one of the later lunar landings for some reason they brought that instrument back. Once it got back to earth the microorganisms burst into life and started to reproduce after years of being in a place with no atmosphere or water. If microorganisms can remain dorment on the moon, they certainly can on Mars.
Maybe they is dormont bacteria on Mars just waiting for the conditions to be right to come to life again. If there was liquid water on Mars once, it is certainly possible.
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