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Penn State Altoona microbiologist finds microbes that can live in glaciers

Thursday, March 22, 2012

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A scientist at Penn State Altoona found that certain types of bacteria can grow underneath polar ice caps, OurAmazingPlanet reports.

The research, funded by the National Science Foundation, might aid in the search for life on other planets, including Mars, that have temperatures ranges like the ones in the study, (microbiologist Corien) Bakermans said.

"Although there are a lot of other factors involved for life to take hold on other planets," Bakermans said, "we can still say that if microbes on Earth can do this, then there's the potential, at least, that microbes can do this on Mars."

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