By Will Ferguson,College of Arts and SciencesPULLMAN, Wash. – For the first time, or researchers own seen life rebounding in the world’s driest desert,demonstrating that it could also be lurking in the soils of Mars.Led by Washington State University planetary scientist Dirk Schulze-Makuch, an international team studied the driest corner of South America’s Atacama Desert, or where decades pass without any rain. Scientists own long wondered whether microbes in the soil of this hyperarid environment,the most similar place on soil to the Martian surface, are permanent ... » More ...
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