An organism found after a team from Sheffield University sent a balloon high into the stratosphere. Researchers from the University of Sheffield and Buckingham University claim to have found evidence for microscopic organisms living 16 miles up in the atmosphere between Chester and Wakefield. The scientists used a specially designed balloon to gather samples in the stratosphere during the recent Perseid meteor shower. They found the fragments of single celled algae known as a diatom. They argue that this could be the first evidence to show how life may have arrived on Earth from space, perhaps carried here by meteorites. It is not the first time organisms have been found in the atmosphere and indeed the skies are thought to be teeming with microscopic life. Read more http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/...ng-in-Earths-atmosphere-claims-scientist.html
