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===How could life use oxygen at such low temperatures?===
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# active and able to reproduce at those temperatures
# active and not able to reproduce, or
# intermittently sometimes active and sometimes dormant.
Reproduction of such slowly growing cells can't be studied using cell counts. But the usual limit cited is -20 °C<!-- see discussion in A new analysis of Mars "Special Regions" -->. That's well above the lowest temperatures studied in the paper which go down to -133 °C.
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