Chile News » Atacama News Chile » Atacama » Life: The Atacama Desert: How Life Survives in the Driest Place on Earth
Imagine a landscape so barren it resembles Mars itself, where some weather stations have never recorded a single drop of rain in their entire operational history. This isn't science fiction – it's the ...
News Chile » Atacama » Life: In Chile a language on the verge of extinction, stirs into life
SAN PEDRO DE ATACAMA, Chile -The dusty main street through San Pedro de Atacama, a tiny town of adobe bricks and whitewashed plaster in Chile’s Atacama Desert, is a whirl of billowing linen shirts, ...
News Chile » Atacama » Life: In Chile’s Atacama desert, stargazers search for alien life and ‘dark energy’
ATACAMA DESERT, Chile, Nov 1 – In Chile’s dry Atacama desert, stargazers are scanning the clear night skies to detect the existence of life on other planets and study so-called ‘dark energy,’ a ...
News Chile » Atacama » Life: Atacama Desert's extreme aridity initiated 20 million years earlier than previously thought, study finds
A collaborative study with the University of Cologne, recently published in Nature Communications, provides compelling evidence that the extreme aridity in the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert ...
News Chile » Atacama » Life: Mars-like Atacama Desert Could Explain Viking ‘No Life’ Results
A team of scientists from NASA, the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Louisiana State University and several other research organizations has discovered clues from one of Earth’s driest deserts ...
News Chile » Atacama » Life: Scientists Turn to Chile's Atacama Desert to Study Life on Mars
Astrobiologists seeking to understand where life might be found on Mars, and what form it might take, are finding that the Atacama desert in Chile, the driest in the world, may hold some important ...
News Chile » Atacama » Life: Microbes in Atacama desert's lost lagoons may mirror early life on Mars
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An aerial picture of the lagoon and surrounding salt plain with microbial mounds visible beneath the water surface. A patchwork of ...
News Chile » Atacama » Life: Robot-Based System Developed at Carnegie Mellon Detects Life in Chile’s Atacama Desert
deployed in future Mars missions. “Our life detection system worked very well, and something like it ultimately may enable robots to look for life on Mars,” said Alan Waggoner, Atacama team member and ...
News Chile » Atacama » Life: A tsunami wiped out ancient communities in the Atacama Desert 3,800 years ago
Broken walls and toppled stones reveal the calamity that struck Zapatero, an ancient community in what’s now northern Chile, about 4,000 years ago. The people who lived along the coast of the Atacama ...
News Chile » Atacama » Life: Stargazers in Chile’s Atacama Desert search for alien life and ‘dark energy’
In Chile’s dry Atacama Desert, stargazers are scanning the clear night skies to detect the existence of life on other planets and study so-called “dark energy,” a mysterious cosmic force thought to be ...