Tag: Atacama desert

In an increasingly desertifying planet, these gene candidates could save some of our food crops.

The Atacama Desert is the most Mars-like environment on Earth.

This also means that resurfaced liquid water on Mars might kill any hypothetical surviving microbes.

For the second time this year, however, the desert bloomed as thousands of dormant species of flowers and plants awoke ...

A bit late on reporting this, but I'm still struck with amazement by this extremely peculiar case of precipitations. Last ...