{"id":7663,"date":"2014-05-05T11:22:21","date_gmt":"2014-05-05T15:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7663"},"modified":"2014-05-05T11:22:21","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T15:22:21","slug":"microbial-astronauts-now-and-in-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7663","title":{"rendered":"Microbial astronauts now and in the past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Life&#8217;s spread into the solar system may have gotten inadvertent transport via earth&#8217;s spacecraft:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/launiusr.wordpress.com\/2014\/05\/05\/extremophiles-surveyor-iii-and-the-possibility-of-life-beyond-earth\/\" target=\"_d\">Extremophiles, Surveyor III, and the Possibility of Life Beyond Earth? &#8211;\u00a0Roger Launius&#8217;s Blog<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2014\/05\/140502120231.htm?utm_content=bufferd0fcd&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\" target=\"_d\">Hardy little space travelers could colonize Mars, space station research shows that &#8212; ScienceDaily<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Life probably spread already from earth via debris thrown into space from giant meteorite impacts in the distant past: \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/the-physics-arxiv-blog\/56e227224a25\" target=\"_d\">How Life-Bearing Rocks from the Chicxulub Asteroid Impact must have Spread through the Solar System: <em>Earth rocks capable of carrying and protecting life have probably to travelled to Europa, Titan and beyond, say astrobiologists<\/em>\u00a0&#8211; The Physics arXiv Blog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also, if life originated on Mars, it would have colonized\u00a0earth in a similar manner:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhm.ac.uk\/about-us\/news\/2013\/november\/life-may-have-arrived-from-space125606.html\" target=\"_d\">Life may have arrived from space &#8211;\u00a0Natural History Museum<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2013\/09\/130912092731.htm\" target=\"_d\">Could life have survived a fall to Earth? &#8212; ScienceDaily<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/22003-alien-life-detector-mars-technology.html\" target=\"_d\">Are We All Martians? Tool Could Help Detect Earth-Like Life on Mars &#8211;\u00a0Space.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.discovery.com\/space\/alien-life-exoplanets\/mars-meteorite-structures-cautious-optimism-for-alien-life-140228.htm\" target=\"_d\">Mars Meteorite Structures: Optimism for Alien Life?\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Discovery News<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life&#8217;s spread into the solar system may have gotten inadvertent transport via earth&#8217;s spacecraft: Extremophiles, Surveyor III, and the Possibility of Life Beyond Earth? &#8211;\u00a0Roger Launius&#8217;s Blog Hardy little space travelers could colonize Mars, space station research shows that &#8212; ScienceDaily Life probably spread already from earth via debris thrown into space from giant meteorite &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7663\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Microbial astronauts now and in the past<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,17,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-space-infrastructure","category-living-in-space","category-science-and-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-1ZB","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5881,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5881","url_meta":{"origin":7663,"position":0},"title":"Beyond earth orbit space science missions in 2014","author":"TopSpacer","date":"January 1, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Emily Lakdawalla\u00a0at the Planetary Society gives a preview of major space science missions in the coming year:\u00a0What's up in planetary missions in 2014 - The Planetary Society. 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