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| Driest Place On Earth Gives Clue |
| Driest Place On Earth Gives Clue To Life On Mars
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 29-February-2016
7:59:9 AM |
| A Mars-like laboratory in the "driest place on Earth" is helping NASA scientists study the limits of life and test drilling and life-detection technologies that might be sent to Red Planet in the future.
In a harsh environment with very little water and intense ultraviolet radiation, most life in the extreme Atacama Desert in Chile exists as microbial colonies underground or inside rocks.
According to researchers at NASA, the same may be true if life exists on Mars.
The Atacama Rover Astrobiology Drilling Studies (ARADS) project has just completed its first deployment after one month of fieldwork in the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert.
Despite being considerably warmer than Mars, the extreme dryness the soil chemistry in this region is remarkably similar to that of the Red Planet.
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