A view of Mars’s surface captured by the Perseverance rover. Image courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS
Joel
Kontinen
A salt-loving microorganism found in places like the Dead Sea can not just survive but actively grow in conditions close to those that may be found just under the Martian surface
Was there
life on Mars? Some Darwinist suppose that there was live in the past and some think that there
might still be live there.
A study here on Earth has made that idea more
plausible by showing that salt-loving, or halophilic, microbes can grow in
conditions close to those that might be found in little pockets of highly salty
water just below the surface of Mars.
“We show
that these halophilic microorganisms can actively grow under a combination of
anoxic [oxygen-free], low-pressure atmosphere conditions and a high-salt liquid
media that contains harmful Martian chemicals that are similar to bleach, which
are the perchlorates,” says Adam Robinson at
the University of Florida. “And image courtesy that’s something that nobody had
been able to show before.”
We have found tantalising hints that not only was there once life on Mars, but that it might still exist on the Red Planet. Now, a study here on Earth has made that idea more plausible by showing that salt-loving, or halophilic, microbes can grow in conditions close to those that might be found in little
The type of life we have seen about the Red Sea gives the researchers live
on Mars.
Source:
Michael Le Page 2026 Earth extremophile can grow in near-Mars-like conditions | New Scientist 10 August
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