{"id":94658,"date":"2019-08-11T11:24:07","date_gmt":"2019-08-11T18:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/scientists-are-testing-whether-bacteria-could-help-them-mine-the-riches-of-space"},"modified":"2019-08-11T11:24:07","modified_gmt":"2019-08-11T18:24:07","slug":"scientists-are-testing-whether-bacteria-could-help-them-mine-the-riches-of-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/scientists-are-testing-whether-bacteria-could-help-them-mine-the-riches-of-space","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Are Testing Whether Bacteria Could Help Them Mine The Riches of Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-are-testing-whether-bacteria-could-help-them-mine-the-riches-of-space3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astrobiologists have sent 18 different strains of bacteria up to the International Space Station.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re not meant to contaminate the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/there-s-a-smorgasbord-of-bacteria-and-fungi-on-board-the-iss\">already-kinda-gross<\/a> orbital research center, but rather to determine whether the mineral-leaching microbes could help astronauts mine space rocks during future missions, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/biorock-tests-microbe-mining-space-station.html\"><a href=\"http:\/\/Space.com\">Space.com<\/a> reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If the so-called BioRock experiment pans out, the researchers behind the experiment argue that it could help humanity turn space rocks on the Moon or Mars into farmable soil for <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/thousands-years-colonize-mars\">future human settlements<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astrobiologists have sent 18 different strains of bacteria up to the International Space Station. They\u2019re not meant to contaminate the already-kinda-gross orbital research center, but rather to determine whether the mineral-leaching microbes could help astronauts mine space rocks during future missions, Space.com reports. If the so-called BioRock experiment pans out, the researchers behind the experiment [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94658","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}