Search results for: exploration of the stratosphere

• SimLE Stardust: How an experiment evolved from student tinkering to a stratospheric research platform

  Publication

  • M. Jasiukowicz
  • B. Rybacki
  • K. Pelzner
  • S. Magrian
  • K. Loret
  • W. Sieklicki
  • M. Sadowska

  - Year 2023

  Stratospheric balloons are one of the most accessible methods of near space exploration. Their applications include capturing of extreme living organisms whose existence in the stratosphere has been suggested in the literature. These potential microorganisms would have evolved to survive the unique environment of low temperature, low pressure and high solar radiation. This makes the development of...

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• Investigation of Microbes in the Stratosphere – Stardust Project

  Publication

  • D. Tomaszewska
  • K. Loret
  • M. Jasiukowicz
  • S. Magrian
  • K. Pelzner

  - Year 2020

  The stratospheric microbiota has been investigated many times using the methods of classical microbiology. In this research a few modern methods, including NGS sequencing and multiple displacement amplification of DNA, were in use. The analysis of metagenome helped to determine the content of various species of bacteria in the sample collected in the stratosphere by a hydrogen-filled balloon holding...

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