SITES OF MARS HABITABLE BY MICROBES

摘要

The Mars Pathfinder and Viking missions in the places of landing sites have measured the temperature of Mars's surface. Then, globally for the entire planet, the temperature was determined by the Thermal Emission Spectrometer instrument on board of the Global Mars Surveyor satellite and Thermal Emission Imaging System on board of Odyssey 2001 satellite. We compare the observed values with the temperature intervals in which the different types of estremophiles can thrive, presented by Pedersen at the GeoExtreme Workshop held in Tremiti Islands in May 2001. Considering the microbial communities found in the terrestrial permafrost, the most promising place on Mars for the development of life of bacteria and archaea is the permafrost in zones near the equators.