Microbiology

Our project is to design an experiment to find out any bacterial life in rocks from the Utah desert, to grow it in culture, and to characterize it by a range of phenotypic and biochemical tests applicable in Martian conditions. We should be able to run these tests with very few equipment. Given that a drilling project is not conceivable, we should just focus on surface rocks from various places, such as an old river’s bed, to discover bacterial presence