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Moss that survives deep freeze and radiation could live on Mars

Moss that survives deep freeze and radiation could live on Mars

Syntrichia caninervis is widespread in some of Earth’s harshest locations, including Tibet and Antarctica, so Xiaoshuang Li at the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography in Urumqi, China, and his colleagues decided to subject it to a brutal suite of tests to discover just how much it could survive.