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  2. Can the Martian Arctic Support Extreme Life?


    ABC.com features NASA’s Phoenix lander and the search for life on Mars in a new article on their Technology and Science website. Harkening back to Viking, and citing new discoveries of microbes in Greenland’s glaciers, the article focuses on the need to understand the microbiology of Earth’s extreme environments in order to best search for life on other planets.

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  3. Novel Species of Bacteria Found Deep Within Greenland Glacier


    Researchers from NAI’s Penn State Team announced at this week’s American Society of Microbiology General Meeting in Boston their discovery of a novel species of ultra-small bacteria that has survived for more than 120,000 years within the ice of a Greenland glacier at a depth of nearly two miles. Read Penn State’s press release here. The species is related genetically to certain bacteria found in fish, marine mud, and the roots of some plants, yet...

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