Life in the Outer Solar system
This is a video from TED featuring the incredible Freeman Dyson called "Let's look for life in the outer solar system" Dyson wants to bring us into the age of the automated search for life. And from what we have laerned from other scientists and researchers (see: Astrobiology) (see: Panspermia) (see: Apollo 12, moon mission- bacteria) we know that life is resilient enough to live any place there is a form of energy, i.e. heat, radiation, sunlight. This makes some of the outer moons a much more probable place to find life. Example of the resiliency of life: The Apollo 12 crew found little bits of bacteria on the un-manned Surveyor 3 space craft, that had landed on the moon TWO YEARS prior. The living bacteria 'Streptococcus mitis' (a common bacteria found on Earth) was found on a piece of foam in the spacecraft's TV camera. This was because the Surveyor 3 was never sterilized before it was launched. -(Lunar and Planetary Instatute)
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