Could the conditions in the Atacama Desert provide insights into the possibility of life on other planets?

This Envisat image was acquired over northern Chile's Atacama Desert, the driest place on Earth outside of the Antarctic dry valleys. Oct 14, 2024 ... Chile's Atacama Desert is, by some measures, the driest place on Earth. The salty earth here bumps up against an amphitheatre of camel ... Death Valley is the driest place in North America, with some areas receiving ... The only place in the world this rare fish is found is Death Valley National Park ... Jan 27, 2017 ... A paper that is among the first to characterize the high-quality preservation of molecular fossils in extremely dry deserts. Dec 19, 2023 ... The Atacama region is so dry due to a coincidence of geographical features. The Humboldt current, running North along Latin America's West coast ... Mar 2, 2014 ... In the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, it looks as if nothing could ever survive. It is one of the driest places in the world, and some ... Nov 5, 2020 ... In the Yungay region of the Atacama desert, the scientists found the clay layer, a previously unreported habitat for microbial life, is ... Aug 28, 2024 ... ... driest desert on Earth. NGS analyses also unveiled a number of the OTUs clearly belonging to marine species, such as mollusks (Mytilisepta) ... The driest place on earth is the Atacama Desert in Chile. It is a plateau that occupies a 600 mile strip of the Pacific coast on the western side of Andes ... Nov 6, 2024 ... Known as the driest non-polar desert in the world, the Atacama Desert is a place where rain is almost a myth, with some areas going decades ...