Bacterialand
Original title: Bacterialand
Duration: 52’
Producer: Thierry Berrod
Director: Thierry Berrod
Participant: MONA LISA PRODUCTION
Company: MONA LISA PRODUCTION
Scientific field: Environment, Ecology, Biology, Geology, Health, Medicine, Exact Sciences
Year: 2005
Country: France
Bacteria are our most distant known ancestors, from more than 3.5 billion years back, can you imagine! In Australia, geologists are searching to locate fossils of these distant relatives, the cyanobacteria, on rock fragments. Other teams working in Antarctica have discovered colonies of bacteria that prosper in temperatures of minus 68°C, in conditions that resemble those found on Mars.
And so bacteria have been placed on a meteorite attached to a satellite and sent off into space in an attempt to understand how life began.
Bacterialand
