Experiments suggest that common illness-causing microbes could not only survive on the Red Planet but also might be able to thrive.
Future interplanetary explorers beware: Hitchhiking bacteria brought to Mars on human bodies might not only survive the harsh conditions on the Red Planet’s surface but also potentially thrive.
That made some of the researchers wonder how such bugs would hold up under the unforgiving environment of Mars. So several members of that team, along with microbiologist Tommaso Zaccaria, placed colonies ofin a box with simulated Martian conditions and regolith, or soil like that found on the surface of Mars. Those four microbes usually live harmlessly on or in us but can become pathogenic when stressed.
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