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Some life will survive any surface condition

Fri Jun 22, 2007 at 08:18:49 PM PDT

A Princeton-led research group has discovered an isolated community of bacteria nearly two miles underground that derives all of its energy from the decay of radioactive rocks rather than from sunlight.


Planetary Society

These will survive any surface conditions, until the heat reaches two miles deep.

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