High-Level Project Summary
So our project bascially provides an idea of making a special type of microbe that could survive the stresses of space, we mainly took inspiration from methanogens, tardigrades, and pikas.
Link to Final Project
Link to Project "Demo"
Detailed Project Description
So our project bascially provides an idea of making a special type of microbe that could survive the stresses of space, we mainly took inspiration from methanogens, tardigrades, and pikas, however we did look at other organisms as well, not all of the research is included in the final project due to relevancy. It benefits us by giving an idea of how we can use our current knowledge of extremeophiles, to engineer a microbe that could survive the extreme enviornments. We used microsoft word and google slides for making the presentation, and we mainly used google for the research.
Space Agency Data
https://science.nasa.gov/biological-physical/programs/space-biology
Hackathon Journey
It was great, exciting but also quite stress inducing, but it was GREAT way to get our minds working and thinking again. The reason we choose our challenge was because it felt like the challenege that had an open-hand while also giving clear guidelines about what NASA expects from us.
References
This image was used to make our team's logo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremophile
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methanogen
https://earth.stanford.edu/news/its-genes-potential-hope-pikas-hit-climate-change#gs.ebf3bo
And the data for the planets was taken from top google search result.
Tags
#concept #microbes #extreme #space #tardigrads #methanogens