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Tardigrades Versus Martian Dirt

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Tech News, Society & Culture, Science, News

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2026

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Researchers Test Mars Soil on One of Earth’s Toughest Creatures, The Reaction Was Unexpected | Daily Galaxy Even the toughest life on Earth may struggle in Mars' toxic soil - Earth.com Short-term survival of tardigrades (Ramazzottius cf. varieornatus and Hypsibius exemplaris) in martian regolith simulants (MGS-1 and OUCM-1) | International Journal of Astrobiology | Cambridge Core Contact the show - coolstuffdailypodcast@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome to Cool Stuff Daily. I'm Reggie Rizzou. As we get closer and closer to discovering

1:00.5

and living on Mars, something we need to take a look at is Martian soil. So what if we took the

1:07.6

toughest creature on Earth and it met the dirt of Mars?

1:11.6

Spoiler alert, Mars might be tougher than we thought.

1:15.6

When scientists want to test the limits of life, they don't start with humans.

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