Meet the Experts: Extreme life

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Microbial life is known to survive in all sorts of extreme environments by going into a dormant state. Could they have survived long trips around our galaxy to seed life on Earth?

Astrobiologist Nicol Caplin talks extreme life in this episode of Meet The Experts.

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