NASA Launching Bacteria into Space During Eclipse

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During the much-anticipated solar eclipse on Monday, NASA in collaboration with Montana State University, is launching giant balloons filled with bacteria into the stratosphere.

And it's not because NASA is just super excited about*the solar eclipse. This endeavor is part of*the Eclipse Ballooning Project, which will help researchers prepare for*a Mars trip.*

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Teams across*the US are sending approximately 75 balloons equipped with*cameras and trackers over*80,000 feet in*the air. Over 30 of*the balloons will also carry a highly resilient strain of*bacteria called Paenibacillus xerothermodurans attached to*aluminum "coupons." Scientists are hoping to*discover how the bacteria will react in*the surface atmosphere on*Mars.
"We have to*be extremely careful that we don't bring bacteria or other tiny Earth organisms to*other planets," project leader and Director of*the Montana Space Grant Consortium Angela Des Jardins, told Gizmodo.*

Full story at https://sputniknews.com/society/2017...solar-eclipse/

I don't know, but this does not sound like a good idea spreading bacteria all over the place.

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During the much-anticipated solar eclipse on Monday, NASA in collaboration with Montana State University, is launching giant balloons filled with bacteria into the stratosphere.

I don't know, but this does not sound like a good idea spreading bacteria all over the place.

Would it be a good guess to think.............if anything were to go really wrong with this experiment with the bacteria, NASA likely could easily proffer the problem cause to the eclipse!!??

[A99]

That bacteria experiment sounds like something from a horror movie where it then mutates into giant flesh eating blobs that will attack our space stations once they get to our stratosphere which is where they're being launched into.



Here's more about that bacteria:

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.

Other sources that it's bacteria that was isolated while taking a part a returned space module. So it's not even earth borne bacteria!

Additional info:

Thursday August 17, 2017


NASA is Sending Bacteria Into the Sky on Balloons During the Eclipse
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.
https://www.hardocp.com/news/2017/08...uring_eclipse/

[A99]

Next they will be attacking us!

[A99]

Just looked up at the sun a half hour ago through solar eclipse "glasses" and it's really cool because it looks like a bright yet small round orange ball. I've never seen the sun look that way and truth be told, it's a little unsettling. One would never know it looks like that because it's a bright sunny blue jean sky out there today. Yet, something is going on because the shadows the sun is casting is a little different than normal and for that matter, so is the overall lighting.