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Aeolian transport of viable microbial life across the Atacama Desert, Chile: Implications for Mars
Here we inspect whether microbial life may disperse using dust transported by wind in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, a well-known Mars analog model. By setting a simple experiment across the hyperarid core of the Atacama we found that a number of viable bacteria and fungi are in fact able to...
| Autores principales: | , , , , , , , , |
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group UK
2019
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6706390/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31439858 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-47394-z |