Nanobacteria are alive on Earth as well as Mars

Robert L. Folk; F. Leo Lynch

doi:10.1117/12.278795

11 July 1997 Nanobacteria are alive on Earth as well as Mars

Robert L. Folk, F. Leo Lynch

Proceedings Volume 3111, Instruments, Methods, and Missions for the Investigation of Extraterrestrial Microorganisms; (1997) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.278795
Event: Optical Science, Engineering and Instrumentation '97, 1997, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

Nannobacteria are minute spherical to worm-shaped cells (diameter 0.03 to 0.2 micrometers ) that participate in the formation of carbonates, clays, and other minerals on Earth. The supposed nannobacterial objects found by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in the Martian meteorite can be exactly duplicated as to morphology and size by earthly examples. Grapelike colonies of 0.05-micrometers carbon balls in the Allende meteorite also resemble nannobacterial colonies in south Italian volcanic clays.

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Robert L. Folk and F. Leo Lynch "Nanobacteria are alive on Earth as well as Mars", Proc. SPIE 3111, Instruments, Methods, and Missions for the Investigation of Extraterrestrial Microorganisms, (11 July 1997); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.278795

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