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Some Extremophiles Could Survive an Asteroid Impact on Mars, and the Dangerous Journey to Earth


Panspermia is the idea that life was spread from world to world somehow. New research shows that one type of Earthly extremophile can survive the extremely high pressure from asteroid impacts on Mars, be blasted into space, and maybe even survive the journey to Earth.

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