All life as we know it needs water. But what organisms can survive if the water is all but unavailable? To find out, considered a soil scientist from two of the driest places on Earth.
Jocelyne DiRuggiero, Associate Professor of biology at the Johns Hopkins explores the similarities and differences between the microbial communities, in the Atacama desert and the dry valleys of Antarctica University. Examples that they have been analyzed by NASA teams, including the recent IceBite project funded by the Astrobiology science and technology for exploring planets (ASTEP) program put together. Study of micro-organisms in this extreme desert locations could help understand the potential for past or present life on planets such as Mars astrobiologists.
Source: [astrobio.net]
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