“…[we are] unravel[ling] microbial survival strategies at extreme conditions [to] understand the roles of microbes in the fate [of] methane in hydrate” – Space.com Sept 2023, NASA Astrobiology Sept 2023
“…there are bacteria in gas clathrates [on Earth]…If you have any melted pockets of water [on an ocean world], that could be habitable…” –EOS, September 2023
“…in the deep past, before oxygen accumulated in the atmosphere, these purple bacteria might have proliferated to such an extent that they could have been detectable on the Earth’s surface” –CNN, August 2017