Go beyond those “little green men.”
With recent discoveries of flowing water on Mars, the thrilling possibility for life on not-so-distance planets seems imminent. Explore the fascinating, adaptive characteristics of organisms capable of surviving in space through culturing of extremophile bacteria. Observe bewildering, unearthly physical processes like cryptobiosis and reanimation. Use the Drake equation to predict the likelihood of life outside Earth, and engineer your own biosphere necessary for the terraforming of a new world.