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Life is possible on Mars. New evidence from Oregon State University research team.

Oregon State University research team said that the microbes “lived” on iron from a mineral found in rocks - a mineral, olivine, also found in volcanic rocks on Mars, and could survive low oxygen conditions and the total absence of organic food

Scientists from Oregon State University have collected microbes from an icy “lava tube” in mountains in Oregon – similarly hostile to the Red Planet’s surface – and found common microbes thriving. The research team said that the microbes “lived” on iron from a mineral found in rocks – a mineral, olivine, also found in volcanic [...]

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