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Hunting for High Life: What Lives in Earth’s Stratosphere?
The Moon photographed through the layers of the atmosphere from the ISS in December 2003 (NASA/JSC)
What lives at the edge of space? Other than high-flying jet aircraft pilots (and the occasional daredevil skydiver) you wouldn’t expect to find many living things over 10 kilometers up — yet this is exactly where one NASA researcher is hunting for evidence of life.
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Post tags: Astrobiology, atmosphere, bacteria, biology, David Smith, NASA, spores, stratosphere
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2012-11-15 16:21:39
Source: http://www.universetoday.com/98497/hunting-for-high-life-what-lives-in-earths-stratosphere/
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