A new type of microorganism is discovered in the clean room of NASA and ESA 4000 km away

ByNIAID

Space ships, hospitals, etc. have a clean room that has been sterilized and kept a high level of cleanliness, but a new kind of bacteria was discovered in a clean room where many bacteria should not exist. Moreover, this new kind of bacteria and NASAESAIt was also found out that it was found in the clean room of two distant agencies, the European Space Agency.

Description of Tersicoccus phoenicis gen. Nov., Sp. Nov. Isolated from spacecraft assembly clean room environments
http://ijs.sgmjournals.org/content/63/Pt_7/2463.abstract?sid=2ca531d8-b0e1-42c8-9fd7-e79d5878e917

New Bacterial Life-Form Discovered in NASA and ESA Spacecraft Clean Rooms: Scientific American
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=bacteria-discovered-spacecraft-clean-rooms

A new species of bacteria was discovered in the clean room of ESA's rocket launch site in South America.Herschel Space TelescopeIn May 2009, researchers were investigating the area around the rocket, and bacteria that had been confirmed only once in the past were found in the clean room.

ByRevedavion.com

Bacteria found in the ESA's clean room were discovered in the past in 2007Mars explorer PhoenixIn the clean room of Kennedy Space Center of NASA who was preparing to launch. By subsequent research "Tersicoccus Phoenicis"Bacteria named" bacteria "are closest to the nearest bacteria and less than 95% of the gene sequence, but the molecular structure of the cell wall and others was found to be completely different, and it was recognized as a new species.

The space center of ESA and NASA where Tersicoccus Phoenicis was found is 4000 kilometers apart, but since it is in the same environment called clean room, the viable environment of Tersicoccus Phoenicis is anxious. Whether Tersicoccus Phoenicis can maintain life activities even under normal circumstances is unknown at this time.

ByNASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Usually clean room keeps high temperature · Wipe the floor with alcohol · sterilization process such as filtering air repeatedly, so only durable bacteria can survive. From that, "Is not Tersicoccus Phoenicis able to survive under normal circumstances?" Analyzed by Alberto Fairen of Cornell University astrobiologist.