美国国家航空航天局不久前在矿洞晶体中发现了一些年龄已有6万年之久的远古生命,再次燃起了对在其他星球的极端环境中寻找外星微生物的希望。多年来,美国国家航空航天局宇宙生物学研究所主管佩内洛普·波斯顿和她带领的研究团队一直在墨西哥契瓦瓦州的纳艾卡矿洞中寻找嗜极生物。洞容量惊人的纳艾卡矿洞中充满了巨大的石膏晶体柱。它们的,波斯顿博士第一次见到这些 NASA recently discovered some 60,000-year-old ancient lives in the crystal of the mines and rekindled hopes of finding extraterrestrial microbes in the extreme environments of other planets. Over the years, Penelope Boston, director of NASA’s Institute of Astrobiology, and her research team have been looking for polar creatures in the Niaca mine in the state of Civava, Mexico. The amazing Cañaya Cave in Cairo is full of gypsum crystal columns. For them, Dr. Boston first saw these