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Oct 1967
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1967natur.216..355y&link_type=abstract
Nature, Volume 216, Issue 5113, pp. 355-356 (1967).
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PREVIOUS experiments1,2, both with known organisms and unidentified aerobic organisms isolated as airborne contaminants, indicated that spore forming organisms did not readily grow or survive in vegetative form in freeze-thaw conditions. Severe freeze-thaw conditions are thought to exist on Mars and spore forming organisms are most likely to survive attempts at sterilization, and so we speculated that spores remaining on spacecraft which have been subjected to sterilization procedures would not grow on Mars even if nutrients and water were present. Detailed experimentation with several different strains of Bacillus subtilis variety niger, however, revealed that certain strains could grow, at least marginally, in freeze-thaw conditions (+25° -70° C) where thaw periods were as short as 5 h, and growth was good when thaw periods were longer. This result was obtained only when a particularly favourable medium, heart infusion broth, was used. Nevertheless, this indicated that spore formers could survive and grow vegetatively in freeze-thaw conditions, if provided with an otherwise sufficiently favourable environment.
Deal P. H.
Whitfield Oscar
Young Simon R.
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