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Working Science: Tracking the Microbes of Life

2015/29 min 30 sec/50 shots

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This 2015 film visits MIT’s Roger Summons Lab, a lead participant in NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory project. It shows geobiologists and astrobiologists selecting and chemically analyzing Earth rock and soil samples for potential biomolecules, then applying those methods to data from the Curiosity rover’s investigation of Martian soil.

Provenance and rights

Original producer: Yvonne Stapp; Belmont Media Center
Collection: Belmont Community Moving Image Archive (Internet Archive collection)
Original title: Working Science: Tracking the Microbes of Life
Date: 2015-05-01T00:00:00Z
Original link: Open on Internet Archive
Rights: public_domain

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