These rock-eating microbes could help us settle the Moon and Mars ...Middle East

In this microscopic image, Sphingomonas desiccabilis is growing on basalt. (UK Centre for Astrobiology/University of Edinburgh–Rosa Santomartino/)If humans ever want to take the unprecedented step of establishing a base on the Moon, Mars, or any other celestial destination, they may need to extract resources from local rocks to support themselves. According to a new study outlined in Nature Communications, we might be able to enlist some very small accomplices to do that grunt work—microbes.Harnessing microbes to do mining work is par for the course on Earth: About 20 percent of the world’s copper and gold is currently extracted with the aid of rock-chowing bacteria. But it was unclear to re

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