Corsair is here welcome to my new video A microbe which can eat actual meteorites has shown that space rocks may be able to carry life across the cosmos. Because meteorites played such an important role in depositing the rare elements necessary for complex life on our planet to develop, researchers have been keen to determine if there are any organisms capable of surviving off the minerals contained within them. While some bacteria are already known to oxidise the iron within meteorites, the scientists wanted to look for something that would find more than just a small part of these space rocks appetizing. The results of the experiment were extraordinary and demonstrated that the microbes were quite content to be feeding on the combination of minerals contained within the samples. Given that some types of microbes have already been shown to be capable of surviving in the vacuum of space, it is not unreasonable to speculate that they could hitch a ride on meteorites.
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