Life on Mars: Difference between revisions

== Life under simulated Martian conditions ==

On 26 April 2012, scientists reported that an [[extremophile]] [[lichen]] survived and showed remarkable results on the [[adaptive capacity|adaptation capacity]] of [[photosynthesis|photosynthetic activity]] within the [[simulation]] time of 34 days under Martian conditions in the Mars Simulation Laboratory (MSL) maintained by the [[German Aerospace Center]] (DLR).<ref name="lab_study">{{cite journal |bibcode=2010AsBio..10..215D |title=Survival Potential and Photosynthetic Activity of Lichens Under Mars-Like Conditions: A Laboratory Study |last=de Vera |first=Jean-Pierre |last2=Möhlmann |first2=Diedrich |last3=Butina |first3=Frederike |last4=Lorek |first4=Andreas |last5=Wernecke |first5=Roland |last6=Ott |first6=Sieglinde |volume=10 |date=2010 |pages=215–27 |journal=Astrobiology |doi=10.1089/ast.2009.0362 |pmid=20402583 |issue=2}}</ref><ref name="EGU-20120426">{{cite journal |bibcode=2012EGUGA..14.2113D |title=The adaptation potential of extremophiles to Martian surface conditions and its implication for the habitability of Mars |last=de Vera |first=J.-P. P. |last2=Schulze-Makuch |first2=D. |last3=Khan |first3=A. |last4=Lorek |first4=A. |last5=Koncz |first5=A. |last6=Möhlmann |first6=D. |last7=Spohn |first7=T. |volume=14 |date=2012 |pages=2113 |journal=EGU General Assembly 2012}}</ref><ref name="dlrMarsStudy">{{cite web|url=http://www.dlr.de/dlr/en/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-10081/151_read-3409/ |title=Surviving the conditions on Mars |publisher=DLR |date=April 26, 2012 |deadurl=no |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121113081036/http://www.dlr.de/dlr/en/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-10081/151_read-3409/ |archivedate=November 13, 2012 }}</ref><ref name="fungal">{{cite journal |doi=10.1016/j.funeco.2012.01.008 |title=Lichens as survivors in space and on Mars |date=2012 |last=de Vera |first=Jean-Pierre |journal=Fungal Ecology |volume=5 |issue=4 |pages=472–9}}</ref><ref name="nordita_eana2012">{{cite journal | first=R. | last=de la Torre Noetzel | first2=F.J. | last2=Sanchez Inigo | first3=E. | last3=Rabbow | first4=G. | last4=Horneck | first5=J. P. | last5=de Vera | first6=L.G. | last6=Sancho | url=http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/ast.2006.0046 | format=PDF | title=Lichens Survive in Space: Results from the 2005 LICHENS Experiment | doi=10.1089/ast.2006.0046 | bibcode=2007AsBio...7..443S | volume=7 | issue=3 | journal=Astrobiology | pages=443–454 | pmid=17630840 | date=June 2007}}</ref><ref name="lichen">{{cite journal |bibcode=2012P&SS...72..102S |title=The resistance of the lichen ''Circinaria gyrosa'' (nom. Provis.) towards simulated Mars conditions—a model test for the survival capacity of an eukaryotic extremophile |last=Sánchez |first=F. J. |last2=Mateo-Martí |first2=E. |last3=Raggio |first3=J. |last4=Meeßen |first4=J. |last5=Martínez-Frías |first5=J. |last6=Sancho |first6=L. G. |last7=Ott |first7=S. |last8=de la Torre |first8=R. |volume=72 |issue=1 |date=2012 |pages=102–10 |journal=Planetary and Space Science |doi=10.1016/j.pss.2012.08.005}}</ref> However, the ability to survive in an environment is not the same as the ability to thrive, reproduce, and evolve in that same environment, necessitating further study.

 

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