Rare earth elements can be extracted by bacteria
Jan
9
The team tested this at the space station, where Luca Parmitano, a European Space Agency astronaut, placed some of the S. desiccabilis in a centrifuge spun at speeds to simulate Mars or Earth gravity, and in zero-gravity environment.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/11/science/bacteria-mining-mars-moon.html