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So, I work with the microorganisms from,
that are isolated from the facility where

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they build the spacecraft, and we're
working on trying to figure out whether

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or not the cleaning reagents that they
use to wipe down these facilities

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actually serve as food sources for the
microorganisms in the facilities.

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As the pandemic sort of decreases in severity,
we'll have access to the microorganisms

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that were isolated from the
spacecraft and the facilities where it

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was built from and we'll get to see
whether or not some of the

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microorganisms that may have been
blasted off with the spacecraft, though

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under the policy limits,
perhaps they are active and perhaps they

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could use small organics as carbon
sources which some of these organics may

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be perhaps already present in the
Martian soil and regolith.

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In summary, my work revolves around the microorganisms from Earth that could hijack a ride on

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the spacecraft towards Mars. So my
research almost ends there but it does

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connect up to what happens on Mars in
that perhaps there are small organic

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molecules on Mars that have carbon and
nitrogen and/or sulfur atoms in there

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that could serve as food sources. And so,
I think my work does relate indirectly

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to what could happen on Mars, and then if
we find that the microorganisms that

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could have hijacked on the spacecraft
use some of these organic molecules and

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carbon sources, then maybe if there was
enough water, the temperature was right,

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they could also survive on Mars. That
would, I think, really inform some of