Francesca Stomeo.MPG

A Italian post-doctoral student at the Institute for Microbial Biology and Metagenomics at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa, Francesca accompanied the NASA scientists as they explored the soil, insects and bacteria of the Namib desert in 2010, part of a longterm effort to explore creatures which thrive in extreme environments in the hopes that this will help future space explorers search for life out there.

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• Francesca Stomeo
• extremophiles
• NASA
• UWC
• University of the Western Cape
• South African science