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Italian magazine claims Phoenix contaminated Mars with terrestrial bacteria
Paolo Amoroso
post Sep 1 2008, 05:04 PM
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I have just read a short story by Alex Saragosa published on issue 1067 (29 Aug 2008, pag. 61) of the italian magazine "il venerdì", a Friday supplement of the major national newspaper la repubblica. The story, titled "I batteri terrestri hanno invaso il pianeta rosso" (terrestrial bacteria have invaded the red planet), claims a group of JPL bilogists analyzed samples from the room where Phoenix was assembled and found 26,000 bacterial cells per square meter from 100 different species, including highly radiation resistant Bacillus pumilis. According to the story, these bacteria may have survived the trip to Mars.

I have never heard anything similar from reliable sources (i.e. anything but la Repubblica) . Any info?


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- Paolo Amoroso   Italian magazine claims Phoenix contaminated Mars with terrestrial bacteria   Sep 1 2008, 05:04 PM
- - djellison   Well - those numbers do sound high - but let's...   Sep 1 2008, 05:32 PM
- - JRehling   Yes, the problem would only be if they are able to...   Sep 1 2008, 05:41 PM
- - Del Palmer   QUOTE (Paolo Amoroso @ Sep 1 2008, 06:04 ...   Sep 1 2008, 05:54 PM
|- - 1101001   NASA Astrobiology Magazine QUOTE AM: What’s the r...   Sep 1 2008, 06:02 PM
|- - 1101001   New Scientist (so be skeptical): Could microbes on...   Sep 1 2008, 06:08 PM
- - nprev   Doug's right, though. You can't get rid of...   Sep 1 2008, 06:54 PM
- - Shaka   Ominous voice of Joe Friday: With a bacterium, it...   Sep 1 2008, 07:05 PM
- - mcaplinger   QUOTE (Paolo Amoroso @ Sep 1 2008, 09:04 ...   Sep 1 2008, 07:42 PM
- - ConyHigh   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjiGH9QNiU0 Ya thi...   Sep 1 2008, 10:17 PM
- - Pavel   I think it's Bacillus pumilus (both words endi...   Sep 1 2008, 11:00 PM
- - jmknapp   What's the max surface temperature on Mars--0C...   Sep 2 2008, 10:46 AM
- - djellison   If you're lucky, at summer, near the equator -...   Sep 2 2008, 11:21 AM
|- - marsbug   Yes but regions that have those kinds of ground te...   Sep 3 2008, 03:07 PM
|- - gallen_53   QUOTE (marsbug @ Sep 3 2008, 04:07 PM) Th...   Sep 3 2008, 05:31 PM
|- - hendric   QUOTE (gallen_53 @ Sep 3 2008, 11:31 AM) ...   Sep 8 2008, 05:58 PM
||- - Juramike   QUOTE (hendric @ Sep 8 2008, 01:58 PM) Du...   Sep 8 2008, 06:31 PM
|- - jumpjack   QUOTE (gallen_53 @ Sep 3 2008, 07:31 PM) ...   Oct 2 2008, 07:26 AM
- - marsbug   Well this conversations been done to the death on ...   Sep 3 2008, 07:08 PM
|- - gallen_53   QUOTE (marsbug @ Sep 3 2008, 07:08 PM) We...   Sep 3 2008, 09:44 PM
||- - jmknapp   You could add: 5. What does it do for food? I fo...   Sep 3 2008, 09:59 PM
|- - gallen_53   QUOTE (marsbug @ Sep 3 2008, 07:08 PM) I...   Sep 4 2008, 12:35 AM
|- - mike   Nothing's feasible until it happens.   Sep 4 2008, 01:56 AM
- - dvandorn   No, Mike -- feasibility, by definition, is a proje...   Sep 4 2008, 05:22 AM
|- - ZenDraken   QUOTE (dvandorn @ Sep 3 2008, 09:22 PM) C...   Sep 9 2008, 10:43 PM
- - Shaka   OK, oDoug, we're all dying to see your detaile...   Sep 4 2008, 07:06 AM
- - dvandorn   Well, Shaka -- just go ask all of Willy's frie...   Sep 4 2008, 03:48 PM
- - Shaka   If this were a Science Fiction forum, this issue w...   Sep 4 2008, 08:17 PM
|- - tedstryk   I think the source is questionable as well. I mea...   Sep 6 2008, 10:10 PM
- - Juramike   I realize I'm treading a thin line here, but t...   Sep 9 2008, 08:12 PM
- - Juramike   To get back to the original speculative claim for ...   Sep 10 2008, 03:33 AM
|- - 1101001   QUOTE (Juramike @ Sep 9 2008, 08:33 PM) (...   Sep 10 2008, 04:54 AM
- - dvandorn   But... how are we currently looking (or have any i...   Sep 10 2008, 04:07 AM
|- - djellison   QUOTE (dvandorn @ Sep 10 2008, 05:07 AM) ...   Sep 10 2008, 07:04 AM
||- - vikingmars   QUOTE (djellison @ Sep 10 2008, 09:04 AM)...   Sep 10 2008, 02:38 PM
||- - Shaka   QUOTE (vikingmars @ Sep 10 2008, 04:38 AM...   Sep 10 2008, 07:59 PM
|- - centsworth_II   QUOTE (dvandorn @ Sep 10 2008, 12:07 AM) ...   Sep 10 2008, 07:19 AM
- - tanjent   In order to positively identify a microscopic life...   Sep 10 2008, 01:33 PM
- - dvandorn   To Doug et al -- what I'm really getting at, h...   Sep 10 2008, 04:27 PM
|- - djellison   QUOTE (dvandorn @ Sep 10 2008, 05:27 PM) ...   Sep 10 2008, 05:21 PM
|- - centsworth_II   QUOTE (dvandorn @ Sep 10 2008, 12:27 PM) ...   Sep 10 2008, 06:59 PM
- - ilbasso   Have we checked any of the big rocks to see if the...   Sep 10 2008, 05:58 PM
|- - BrianL   QUOTE (ilbasso @ Sep 10 2008, 12:58 PM) H...   Sep 10 2008, 06:22 PM
- - ElkGroveDan   I wonder if any of these little guys hitched a rid...   Sep 10 2008, 07:04 PM
- - imipak   ...rustlers!! Time to form a posse.   Sep 11 2008, 06:46 PM
- - PhilCo126   those bacteria (if any) will freeze to death once ...   Sep 12 2008, 04:39 PM
|- - Juramike   "those bacteria (if any) will freeze [maybe t...   Sep 12 2008, 04:52 PM
- - marsophile   The bacteria spores may survive a few million year...   Sep 22 2008, 04:37 PM
|- - 1101001   QUOTE (marsophile @ Sep 22 2008, 09:37 AM...   Sep 22 2008, 06:09 PM
- - Shaka   Get a load of the Kim Stanley Robinson-from-Hell...   Sep 22 2008, 09:17 PM

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