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Aeolian transport of viable microbial life across the Atacama Desert, Chile: Implications for Mars

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1 Published in 2019 at "Scientific Reports"

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-47394-z

Abstract: Here we inspect whether microbial life may disperse using dust transported by wind in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, a well-known Mars analog model. By setting a simple experiment across the hyperarid core of… read more here.

Keywords: aeolian transport; microbial life; life; atacama desert ... See more keywords