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HTTP:: Laser Technology Could Find Martian Ice Microbes
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Over the past couple of years, experts have successfully used an innovative, new imaging technique called L.I.F.E. to probe the Antarctic underground for signs of life. Their quests have been successful, and the new technology has been proven to function very accurately. Now, taking that research one step further, scientists say that it could have considerable implications in our search for life on other planets, and especially on Mars. The planet's ice sheets look like they could harbor microbes and bacteria, so using the new method there may yield some breakthrough results, ScienceDaily reports. The method has discovered life, for example, in underground, Antarctic, frozen lakes, where cyanobacteria have been active. The Laser-Induced Fluorescence Emission (L.I.F.E.) imaging technique has been able to pick up these signs of activity, by detecting the red and infrared fluorescence the microorganisms generate while being alive. The work has been conducted by Kinohi Instit!
ute expert Michael Storrie-Lombardi, PhD, in the United States, and research scientist Birgit Sattler, PhD, from the University of Innsbruck, in Austria. The main advantage the imaging technique has is that it is non-invasive. That is to say, it does not destroy the target organisms while investigating them, unlike other similar dete...
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