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Twinkle, twinkle, little microbe

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Diane Laurin

For the last month, I’ve been reading a number of news reports saying that Russia’s Phobos-Grunt spaceflight, scheduled to sail in August 2010 for a three-year round-trip mission to Mars, will be packing some of the “world’s hardiest” organisms found on Earth – extremely diverse and often exploited microbes. Phobos-Grunt will land on Phobos, one of Mars’ two moons, pick up some soil samples, and bring them back along with a payload of 31 yet-unnamed microbe specimens to Earth in 2012. The organization behind this bright idea is the Planetary Society, which is seeking to prove that live...Read full article

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    Published: January 2009
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