Sentence examples for terrestrial microbes from inspiring English sources
The higher reaches of the sky may have been contaminated by terrestrial microbes riding on satellites or rockets.
He long advised NASA on how to operate its probes to avoid contaminating foreign bodies with terrestrial microbes, as well as accidentally bringing alien ones back to Earth.
If some sort of microbial life exists on another world, the last thing you want to do is seed the place with terrestrial microbes — if only to prevent "discovering" alien life that isn't alien at all.
In 2003, NASA steered its Galileo probe, which had faithfully surveyed the Jovian system for years, into Jupiter's crushing atmosphere, to avoid the possibility of introducing terrestrial microbes to the moon Europa, which harbors water and, perhaps, life.
Fortunately, Indonesia is also rich in terrestrial microbes, particularly in actinomycetes.
Yet, evidence of "terrestrial" microbes is rare and indirect in comparison with fossils from shallow or deeper marine environments, and its record has been largely overlooked.
In order to better understand the distribution patterns of terrestrial eukaryotic microbes and the factors governing them, we studied the diversity partitioning of soil testate amoebae across levels of spatially nested habitat hierarchy in the largest European old-growth dark coniferous forest (Pechora-Ilych BiospheRussiaeRussiaomi Russiaic, Russia).
Current approaches oriented to discovering novel molecules mostly aim to target specific and minor microbial communities in unique or underexplored environments, including specific terrestrial niches, plant host-microbe associations, and marine environments.
An early suggestion was that these microbes originated from terrestrial soils and freshwater inflow before entering the Western Arctic via the Mackenzie River [72].
Alternatively, ticks could acquire microbes from other terrestrial organisms through cross-species transmission.
The diversity of sub-fields collecting data on very different scales of grain, extent, and time from marine microbes to whole terrestrial ecosystems make these highly challenging disciplines to integrate.
