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Microbial Life Colonizes Post-Impact Craters And Thrives For Millions Of Years


Researchers have dated the appearance of microbial life in a 78 million year old impact crater. Life colonized the fractured hydrothermal system the impact created, and thrived for millions of years. It could do the same on other worlds.

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