2021年2月22日 · With no jet or rocket engine roar, on the morning of Sept. 23, 2019, a large NASA scientific balloon calmly and quietly soared into the sky from Fort Sumner, New Mexico, with MARSBOx and millions of tiny, well-secured microbial passengers onboard.

2017年8月15日 · Every time we send a rover to the Red Planet, our own microorganisms latch on to them and hitch a ride across space. What happens to these bacteria once they’re on Mars? Do they mutate? Do they...

2017年8月16日 · Out of the total fleet of roughly 75 balloons, over 30 of them will carry small samples of an extremely resilient strain of bacteria called Paenibacillus xerothermodurans over 80,000 feet...

The study transported Bacillus pumilus bacteria and their spores by helium-filled balloon to the stratosphere of Earth (~31 km above sea level) and monitored the ability of the microorganisms to survive in extreme Martian-like conditions such as low …

2017年8月21日 · The balloons will carry cards bearing a harmless yet environmentally resilient bacteria dried onto their surface. The cards that fly up with the balloons will be compared to their partners on...

2021年2月23日 · Using the MARSBOx, or the Microbes in Atmosphere for Radiation, Survival and Biological Outcomes Experiment, scientists at NASA and the German Aerospace Center collaborated to send four types of...

2021年2月21日 · To understand microbial survival potential in Mars-like conditions, several fungal and bacterial samples were launched in September 2019 on a large NASA scientific balloon flight to the middle stratosphere (∼38 km altitude) where radiation levels resembled values at the equatorial Mars surface.

2014年9月22日 · Soaring 125,000 feet above the Earth, E-MIST was exposed to the upper atmosphere during a 5-hour journey over the desert, to understand how spore-forming bacteria, commonly-found in spacecraft assembly facilities, can survive.

2024年4月5日 · The Exposing Microorganisms in the Stratosphere (E-MIST) 2015 payload mission is a science investigation that is studying the survival of spore-forming bacteria carried to 125,000 feet above the New Mexico desert on a high-altitude NASA scientific balloon.

2021年2月22日 · To understand microbial survival potential in Mars-like conditions, several fungal and bacterial samples were launched in September 2019 on a large NASA scientific balloon flight to the middle stratosphere (∼38 km altitude) where radiation levels resembled values at the equatorial Mars surface.