NASA is Sending Bacteria Into the Sky on Balloons During the Eclipse

[monkeymagick]

And the reason why, to figure if certain bacteria will survive space travel between the Earth and onto Mars. Up above the ozone layer is Earth's stratosphere, which is minus 35 degrees. During the total solar eclipse, temperatures would drop even lower to a Mars-like condition as the Moon will help cause ultraviolet rays similar to radiation that affects Mars. We'll see how this experiment works, as we either get the Blob or an alien symbiote.

The bacteria that will fly to the edge of space is a particular strain called Paenibacillus xerothermodurans. It was first isolated from soil outside a spacecraft-assembly facility at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida in 1973, says Parag Vaishampayan, an astrobiologist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. These bacteria form shields of spores that allow them to survive even when conditions turn deadly. It takes around 140 hours at 257 degrees Fahrenheit to kill 90 percent of these bacteria

 

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And the reason why, to figure if certain bacteria will survive space travel between the Earth and onto Mars. Up above the ozone layer is Earth's stratosphere, which is minus 35 degrees. During the total solar eclipse, temperatures would drop even lower to a Mars-like condition as the Moon will help cause ultraviolet rays similar to radiation that affects Mars. We'll see how this experiment works, as we either get the Blob or an alien symbiote.

The bacteria that will fly to the edge of space is a particular strain called Paenibacillus xerothermodurans. It was first isolated from soil outside a spacecraft-assembly facility at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida in 1973, says Parag Vaishampayan, an astrobiologist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. These bacteria form shields of spores that allow them to survive even when conditions turn deadly. It takes around 140 hours at 257 degrees Fahrenheit to kill 90 percent of these bacteria

Couldn't they alternatively just do this at night?

Or is the radiation different at night vs a planetary object blocking radiation / photons.

 

[Exercate]

And ... speaking of the eclipse - I have downloaded something called "Solar Eclipse Timer" ap. From Foxwood Astronomy. $1.99 It guides you thru all of the phases of the eclipse by voice on your Andriod. Don't know if it works on those "i-things". You can run it anytime in Demo Mode to get yourself used to listening to the various announcements. Really is pretty cool. It even announces when to take your eclipse glasses off and put them back on. And - when to be observant for "Shadow Snakes" - although they call them Shadow Bands.