Alien microbes could survive crash-landing

Tough bugs make interplanetary wanderings more plausible.

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Philip Ball
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University of Kent at Canterbury

Ball, P. Alien microbes could survive crash-landing. Nature (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/news040830-10