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This might not look like much. But every day, tiny little things like this are raining down on our planet. Each one is small, about a millimeter across. But over the course of a year, each individual piece that makes its way to Earth’s surface adds up to around 30,000 tons.
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https://www.nasa.gov/stem-ed-resources/sfs-micrometeoroids-space-debris.html
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-11682-z
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/could-microbes-survive-a-trip-to-mars-we-asked-a-nasa-scientist-episode-1
https://blog.frontiersin.org/2020/08/26/bacteria-could-survive-the-travel-from-earth-to-mars-and-vice-versa-when-forming-aggregates/
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