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  1. Our big #Spain trip - nitter.net/cosmos4u/status/208 - is nearing its end: we left the #Meseta Norte to Asturia and finally #Cantrabria, with far worse weather, much greener and mountainous landscapes and views of the #BayofBiscay like this, from the Mirador de la Ensenada de #Erillo, located half-way between Santander and Bilbabo. Note the much brighter water emanating from the bay: a #gypsum #diapir as explained in cantabriainusual.com/el-diapir

  2. Researchers Find Bacterial Communities Deep Beneath the Atacama eos.org/articles/researchers-f

    Persistent microbial communities in #hyperarid subsurface habitats of the #Atacama Desert: Insights from intracellular DNA analysis academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/art

    "they proposed that the #microbes rely on water generated by the mineralogical change from #gypsum to #anhydrite. This change indeed leaves some amount of water in the environment and this water could be used by the #bacteria."