PIA17369-NASA-Bacteria-TersicoccusPhoenicis-20131106

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Summary[edit] Description: English: Novel Bacterial Genus Found Only in Spacecraft Assembly Clean Rooms - This microscopic image shows dozens of individual bacterial cells of the recently discovered species Tersicoccus phoenicis. This species has been found in only two places: clean rooms in Florida and South America where spacecraft are assembled for launch. Spacecraft clean rooms are one of the most thoroughly checked environments on Earth for what microbes are present. The monitoring provides an indication of what species might get into space aboard a spacecraft. The image includes a scale bar showing that each of the bacterial cells is about one micrometer, or micron, across (about 0.00004 inch). See related story at http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-319. Date: 2013. Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA17369 (image link). Author: NASA/JPL-Caltech/DSMZ. : This image or video was catalogued by Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under Photo ID: PIA17369. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing for more information. Български | Català | Čeština | Deutsch | English | Español | فارسی | Français | Galego | Magyar | Հայերեն | Bahasa Indonesia | Italiano | 日本語 | Македонски | മലയാളം | Polski | Português | Русский | Türkçe | 中文 | 中文（简体）‎ | +/−.