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  1. Content with the tag: “extreme environments

  2. IceBite Blog: Living in a Freezer


    NASA’s IceBite team recently returned from their first field season in Antarctica. In this installment of blog entries, Margarita Marinova discusses what it’s like to live and work in such a harsh environment. As she explains, being an astrobiolgist means performing scientific research in some of Earth’s most remote and unique locations.

    The Astrobiology Magazine is providing a direct link to scientists on the IceBite team, where readers can ask questions about the science being conducted in Antarctica.

    Source: [astrobio.net]

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  3. Salt Ponds Could Be Clue to Life on Mars


    Rocco Mancinelli, PI of NAI’s Emeritus Team at the SETI Institute, will use a zeppelin airship to watch red salt ponds turn green while the environment is changed from near-Martian conditions into wetlands. Work will begin next year on a decades-long project to restore thousands of acres of industrial salt-harvesting ponds in San Francisco Bay into native wetland habitat. The ponds are colored red because of the color of microbes that flourish in the extremely salty conditions. Green microbes will replace red ones as the wetlands are restored.

    Source: [San Francisco Examiner]

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  4. Escuela International de Astrobiología


    The Josep Comas i Solà International Astrobiology Summer School, held annually in Santander, Spain, has become a tradition in the astrobiology community, as this summer marked its seventh year. The week-long program for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows provides lectures from international experts, round-table discussions, student projects, night-sky observations, and a half-day field trip to a nearby site of astrobiological interest.

    This summer’s program, held from 22-26 June, was devoted to an understanding of the characteristics and diversity of organisms that inhabit Earth’s extreme environments and the implications for the habitability of environments beyond Earth. About...

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