page_title: Impact survival
hierarchical_section_title: Impact survival
caption_attribution_description: English: K/T extinction event theory. An artist's depiction of the asteroid impact 65 million years ago that many scientists say is the most direct cause of the dinosaurs' disappearance [1].
context_page_description: Impact survival is a theory that life, usually in the form of microbial bacteria, can survive under the extreme conditions they are exposed to during a major impact event, such as a meteorite striking the surface of a planet. This step is a necessity for the possibility of panspermia, for the microbial life must be able to survive both the escape out of the initial planetary atmosphere, likely due to a major impact, as well the reentry and collision with a second planetary body.
context_section_description: Impact survival is a theory that life, usually in the form of microbial bacteria, can survive under the extreme conditions they are exposed to during a major impact event, such as a meteorite striking the surface of a planet. This step is a necessity for the possibility of panspermia, for the microbial life must be able to survive both the escape out of the initial planetary atmosphere, likely due to a major impact, as well the reentry and collision with a second planetary body.
caption: An artist's depiction of a major collision event.
exif: {"Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image XResolution": "100", "Image YResolution": "100", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "Adobe Photoshop 7.0", "Image DateTime": "2004:05:25 19:17:47", "Image ExifOffset": "156", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "72", "Thumbnail YResolution": "72", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "294", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "5033", "EXIF ColorSpace": "Uncalibrated", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "500", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "629"}