Mircobes on Mars

A recent study by Andrew C. Schueger, a microbiologists at the University of Florida, have found that some microbes are able to withstand the cold temperatures of Siberia but may not be able to survive under Martian conditions. They have found that UV light has proved very devastating for microbes that are resistant to the cold. This find will help NASA trace any sort of life on Mars as well as aid them in developing methods to keep mircobes found on Earth from contaminating Mars which could be detrimental when trying to search for life on Mars. However, the research done by Schueger has found that UV light can easily penetrate many Martian surfaces, which would limit the amount of contamination that may occur if some of Earth's microbes happened to make it to the red planet.