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Could Life Survive? - Glossary

Bacteria: the plural form of bacterium; bacterium are single-celled microorganisms that live in soil, water, organic matter, or on the bodies of plants and animals
Dormant: inactive
Extremophiles: organisms, usually single-celled, which can live in environments that would be considered extreme or hostile for most living organisms
Habitable; habitability: suitable for life
Inhibit: to stop or slow
pH: scale that ranges from 0 to 14 and is a tool used by scientists to measure the strength of an acid or base; 7 represents a neutral; lower numbers indicate increasing acidity and higher numbers indicate stronger bases
Spores: simple, usually single-celled reproductive bodies produced by plants and some microorganisms; often dormant during extreme temperatures and conditions

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The Phoenix Mission is led by Principal Investigator Peter H. Smith of The University of Arizona, supported by a science team of CO-Is, with project management at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and development partnership with Lockheed Martin Space Systems. International contributions are provided by the Canadian Space Agency; the University of Neuchatel, Switzerland; the universities of Copenhagen and Aarhus Denmark; the Max Planck Institute, Germany; and the Finnish Meteorological Institute. Additional information on Phoenix is online at here and here. JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages Mars Odyssey and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter for the NASA Science Mission Directorate, Washington. Additional information on NASA's Mars program is online at here.

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