Films 2008

Director: Thierry Berrod
Producer: Mona Lisa Productions, France 5
Production Year: 2005
Country: France
Length: 52 min.

Bacteria are our most ancient ancestors, dating back more than 3.5 billion year. In Australia, geologists are searching to locate fossils of these distant relatives, the cyanobacteria, on rock fragments. Other teams working in Antarctica have discovered colonies of bacteria that thrive in temperatures of minus 68°C, in conditions that resemble those found on Mars. Now, bacteria have been placed on a meteorite attached to a satellite and sent off into space in an attempt to understand how life began.