Are there bacteria on mars

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The researchers running the project named it M. Odds are they hitched a ride on cargo, or on astronauts, and the microbe hunters only noticed them because they went looking. As on Earth, human health in space will depend in part on a healthy microbiome and a good relationship with the microbiome of the vessel or shelter. These are the things that survive. Space is really quite unpleasant. The high levels of hard radiation are more of a long-term deal breaker.

So the insides of those vessels and suits have to be closed systems. The only things that come and go are cargo and astronauts. But wherever people go, they bring their ride-along microbes with them—in their guts, on their skin, in their noses and mouths.

The air on the ISS is drier, with higher levels of carbon dioxide. Radiation levels are higher. In practice, that means that the environmental microbiome of the ISS looks a lot like the microbiome of the astronauts who live there.

It even changes when the crews change, according to a study. Those researchers looked at skin, nose, and gut microbes from nine astronauts who spent anywhere from a few months to, in one famous case, a year on the ISS—comparing them to before- and after-mission samples, and to samples from the station itself.

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