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Archive Home > 2008 > June > 23 > Can the Martian arctic support extreme life?

Can the Martian arctic support extreme life?

NASA’s Phoenix spacecraft gives scientists hope with possible ice

By Alicia Chang / The Bulletin
June 23, 2008

LOS ANGELES — Bizarre microbes flourish in the most punishing environments on Earth from the bone-dry Ata-cama Desert in Chile to the boiling hot springs of Yellowstone National Park to the sunless sea bottom vents in the Pacific.

Could such exotic life emerge in the frigid arctic....

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