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Scientists find desert moss ‘that can survive on Mars’ (www.theguardian.com)

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[-] thegr8goldfish@startrek.website 14 points 10 months ago

Man, that title. They grew everything in sand. Regolith is filled with concentrated salts, and there's no liquid water that we know of. At best, this experiment shows that if your inedible moss in a flower pot is briefly exposed to actual Martian conditions, it might survive when you bring it back inside.

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