"It was just cool to find that total dichotomy in survival strategy," says Lily Momper, the first author of the study.
The life that lurks deep in Earth's subsurface may be an analogue for alien creatures eking out existence on other worlds."
Such subsurface niches could be the default abodes for any life elsewhere in the solar system, if not the cosmos at largeâwhich makes the hardy microbes hidden within our own planet of vital interest to astrobiologists."
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