Subsurface microbial habitats in an extreme desert Mars-analogue environment
Kimberley A. Warren-Rhodes, Kevin C. Lee, Stephen D.J. Archer, Nathalie Cabrol, Linda Ng-Boyle, David Wettergreen, Kris Zacny, Stephen B. Pointing, the NASA Life in the Atacama Project Team
The paper studies microbial life in subsurface sediments of an extreme desert environment, linking biocomplexity to moisture and geochemistry, and tests a rover-mounted drill for Mars sample recovery.
bioRxiv · Sep 12, 2018 · PreprintMicrobiology