Subsurface microbial habitats in an extreme desert Mars-analogue environment
K. Warren-Rhodes, K. Lee, S. Archer, N. Cabrol, L. Ng-Boyle, D. Wettergreen, K. Zacny, S. Pointing, 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