Leven onder extreme omstandigheden

Het onderwerp is weleens vaker langsgekomen in deze podcast: de neiging van levende wezens om zelfs onder de meest bizarre omstandigheden te persisteren. Recent kwam op dit gebied twee keer iets interessants in de wetenschappelijke literatuur, dus leek het mij aardig daar weer eens aandacht aan te besteden.

Extreme environmental tolerance and space survivability of the moss, Physcomitrium patens:

https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(25)02088-7

Mossen:

https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossen

'We were genuinely astonished': This moss survived 9 months outside the International Space Station and could still grow on Earth:

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/international-space-station/we-were-genuinely-astonished-this-moss-survived-9-months-outside-the-international-space-station-and-could-still-grow-on-earth

Mosses in low earth orbit: implications for the limits of life and the habitability of Mars:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2018.1889

The Apollo 12 crew brought back Surveyor 3’s camera after 31 months on the Moon, and NASA reported finding live Streptococcus bacteria inside it, but later evidence pointed to contamination in Houston:

https://space-travel.com/st-the-apollo-12-crew-brought-back-surveyor-3s-camera-after-31-months-on-the-moon-and-nasa-reported-finding-live-streptococcus-bacteria-inside-it-but-later-evidence-pointed-to-contamination/

A microbe on the Moon? Surveyor III and lessons learned for future sample return missions:

https://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/sssr2011/pdf/5023.pdf

Microbes from Earth may survive on the moon, scientists find:

https://www.space.com/astronomy/moon/microbes-from-earth-may-survive-on-the-moon-scientists-find

Potential survivable niches for microbial life on the lunar south pole:

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aec0811

Microbes may make it on the Moon:

https://www.astronomy.com/science/microbes-may-make-it-on-the-moon/

Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C.:

https://airandspace.si.edu/

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