Tag Archives: Mars analogs

Field test: Robotic rover collects subsurface samples with patchy, specialized microbial life

Posted on February 28, 2019 by rburnham

[Editor’s note: From a paper by Kimberley Warren-Rhodes and eight co-authors recently published in Frontiers in Microbiology.] Subsurface Microbial Habitats in an Extreme Desert Mars-Analog Environment Sediments in the hyper-arid core of the Atacama Desert are a terrestrial analog to … Continue reading →

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Tibetan Plateau has analogs for Mars yardangs

Posted on August 23, 2018 by rburnham

[Editor’s note: From a paper by Jiang Wang and eight co-authors recently published in the Journal of Geophysical Research.] Geological Features and Evolution of Yardangs in the Qaidam Basin, Tibetan Plateau (NW China): A Terrestrial Analogue for Mars • We … Continue reading →

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Ancient Mars life: Clues from toxic volcanic lake?

Posted on May 3, 2018 by rburnham

Researchers at CU Boulder have discovered microbes living in a toxic volcanic lake that may rank as one of the harshest environments on Earth. Their findings, published recently online [in Astrobiology], could guide scientists looking for signs of ancient life on … Continue reading →

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