Did you know that a region in Antarctica called McMurdo Dry Valleys haven't experienced rainfall for over two million years?
image: Tsoil biologist Byron Adams adjusts a bundt pan filled with marbles that catches blowing dirt along the shore of Lake Hoare. Byron Adams made his way up a slope in the McMurdo Dry Valleys ...
The recent announcement of evidence of flowing, liquid water just below the Martian surface made headlines across the globe. When asked what this water might be like, NASA scientist Chris McKay ...
The Antarctic Dry Valleys represent one of the most extreme terrestrial environments on Earth, characterised by an environment of persistent cold, extreme aridity and oligotrophy. Microbial ...