Researchers from the Center of Astrobiology of INTA-CSIC in Spain and the Catholic University of the North in Chile have discovered an ‘oasis’ of microorganisms living below the surface of the Atacama Desert, Chile. Atacama Desert, Chile (ESO) Their paper, published in the journal Astrobiology, describes the discovery of a hypersaline subsurface microbial habitat associated with halite-, nitrate-, and perchlorate-containing salts lying at...
