#atacama — Public Fediverse posts

📰 El milagro verde del Desierto de Atacama: la década de ensayos que logró plantar miles de cactáceas en el suelo más seco del país
🔗 https://www.theclinic.cl/2026/09/06/el-milagro-verde-del-desierto-de-atacama-la-decada-de-ensayos-que-logro-plantar-miles-de-cactaceas-en-el-suelo-mas-seco-del-pais/

#desiertodeatacama #cactaceas #atacama #milagroverde

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 💧☠️ In the Argentinian #Andes, San Antonio de los Cobres residents drink #water with #arsenic levels 20 times the safe limit.

#Uppsala University researchers found they carry a #gene variant that turns arsenic into a form their bodies can safely flush out.

👉 https://www.sciencealert.com/humans-in-the-andes-seem-to-have-evolved-a-strange-genetic-ability

#argentina #evolution #genetics #naturalselection #dna #biology #science #sanantoniodeloscobres #atacama #health #medicine

Memories from Februaries spent in the #Atacama desert. Team members would take nights off to recover from the heat and do laundry in town, pick up supplies at the hardware store.

Often we had to get those foil-faced windshield covers to protect computers that would overheat in the sun.

Driving through that otherworldly #landscape was exhilarating.

#extremophilia #chile #nasa #marsrover #seti #antofagasta #fieldscience #extremophiles #desert #mondaymemories

#ZARM:
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Forschungsteam bricht in die Atacama-Wüste auf
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"Die Forschenden .. wollen in der Atacama-Wüste Bodenproben nehmen. Durch diese erhoffen sie sich tiefe Erkenntnisse über die geochemischen Eigenschaften des Sediments, die vorhandenen Mikroorganismen und ihre Anpassungsmechanismen. .."

https://www.zarm.uni-bremen.de/de/news-list/news-display/forschungsteam-bricht-in-die-atacama-wueste-auf

5.2.2026

#Atacama #Biosignatur #Bodenproben #Chile #DieMarsperspektive #DFG #EXOSALT #Leben #Mars #Mikroorganismus #Regolith #Spektrometer