Resumen de Life could be at home on nearly dry worlds
Microbes that thrive in the highest known geothermal vents suggest that water isn't the only thing to look out for when searching for alien life. Adam Solon of the University of Colorado at Boulder believes geothermal vents are likely to be vital for life to emerge on other planets and moons. To test the limits of waters importance. Solon and his colleagues took samples of bacteria from gas-spewing vents more than 6000 meters up Mount Socompa in Chile's Atacama desert, one of the planets driest places. They compared the samples with ones from two equally elevated environments. one from relatively moist soil among ice deposits, the other more typical of dry soils found at those altitudes.
