If You're Breathing, Maybe Thank the Moon | The Middle Island Sinkhole

Описание: Earth hasn't always had a lot of oxygen, so where did our air come from? If you're breathing right now, you have microbes to thank... but maybe also the Moon.

Since this is a new research paper, we don't have all the answers for sure, but there are some fascinating details in this story. Like, who knew there were sinkholes in Lake Huron? Let alone sinkholes with dancing microbe mats in them?


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Key sources on the Middle Island Sinkhole, cyanobacteria, oxygen levels on Earth, corals, the Moon, and more:
General information on Lake Huron sinkholes: https://www.michiganseagrant.org/less...



New study (open access): https://www.nature.com/articles/s4156...
Press release: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-relea...

Special thanks to Dr. Biddanda for clarifying some of the details here for me!

Previous Middle Island Sinkhole research:
https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowl...


Other Key Sources:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
https://silurian-reef.fieldmuseum.org...
https://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/ex...
https://ase.tufts.edu/cosmos/view_cha...
http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/abou...

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