Halobacteria

In the late 1980s a research group in Britain discovered that a group of salt-tolerant microbes called halobacteria could become trapped within rock salt and survive for months at a time in their tiny, briny homes. ❋ Robert Zubrin (1996)

Again, they discovered tiny, fluid-filled cavities within the rock salt, and within a small fraction of these cavities 6 out of 350 they discovered viable halobacteria that could be cultured in the laboratory after a time span of more than 200 million years.4 ❋ Robert Zubrin (1996)

Walter Stockenius, Dieter Oesterhelt had discovered bacteriorhodopsin in halobacteria and later proposed that it acts as a lightdriven proton pump in the framework of Peter Mitchell's chemiosmotic theory. ❋ Unknown (1988)

Reitmeier H, Oesterhelt D (1976) Biosynthesis of the purple membrane of halobacteria. ❋ Kenia Whitehead Et Al. (2009)

The halobacteria, which inhabit salt lakes, are one of the most ancient forms of life on Earth. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"Looking at Mars halobacteria and also _Deinococcus radiodurans_. ❋ Unknown (2004)