{"id":144752,"date":"2022-08-24T23:24:11","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T04:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/spores-in-space-mold-can-withstand-radiation-doses-that-would-kill-a-human"},"modified":"2022-08-24T23:24:11","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T04:24:11","slug":"spores-in-space-mold-can-withstand-radiation-doses-that-would-kill-a-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/spores-in-space-mold-can-withstand-radiation-doses-that-would-kill-a-human","title":{"rendered":"Spores in Space: Mold Can Withstand Radiation Doses That Would Kill a Human"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spores-in-space-mold-can-withstand-radiation-doses-that-would-kill-a-human.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2019 <span class=\"wp-smiley emoji emoji-face_with_colon_three\" title=\":3\">face_with_colon_three<\/span> <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Scientists zapped mold spores in a laboratory and concluded that two types of fungus could <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/21353-space-radiation-mars-mission-threat.html\">survive a journey<\/a> to the moon or Mars.<\/p>\n<p>There are both positive and negative implications about this news, according to a recent statement by the American Geophysical Union (AGU). AGU coordinated the 2019 Astrobiology Science Conference in Seattle, where lead researcher microbiologist Marta Cortes\u00e3o, a doctoral student at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), will present her research on the mold today (June 28).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2019 face_with_colon_three Scientists zapped mold spores in a laboratory and concluded that two types of fungus could survive a journey to the moon or Mars. There are both positive and negative implications about this news, according to a recent statement by the American Geophysical Union (AGU). AGU coordinated the 2019 Astrobiology Science Conference in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}