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Super Fungi Survive Extreme Mars-like Environments

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Teaching Robots To Walk On Mars From The Sand Of New Mexico

Robotics/Rovers/UAVs

Teaching Robots To Walk On Mars From The Sand Of New Mexico

Exploring Organic Compound Preservation Through Long-term In Situ Experiments In The Atacama Desert And The Relevance For Mars

Biosignatures & Paleobiology

Exploring Organic Compound Preservation Through Long-term In Situ Experiments In The Atacama Desert And The Relevance For Mars

Monitoring Active Gullies On Mars From Orbit

Mars

Monitoring Active Gullies On Mars From Orbit

Desert Storm Dust Transport Of Bacteria (Implications For Arrakis and Mars)

Desert Worlds

Desert Storm Dust Transport Of Bacteria (Implications For Arrakis and Mars)

Idiomarina aminovorans sp. nov., A Halophilic Bacterium Isolated From The Llamara Salt Pan In The Atacama Desert Of Northern Chile

Microbiology & Virology

Idiomarina aminovorans sp. nov., A Halophilic Bacterium Isolated From The Llamara Salt Pan In The Atacama Desert Of Northern Chile

Was Mars Doomed To Be A Desert? Study Proposes A New Explanation

Mars

Was Mars Doomed To Be A Desert? Study Proposes A New Explanation

UVC-Intense Exoplanets May Not Be Uninhabitable: Evidence from a Desert Lichen

Radiation

UVC-Intense Exoplanets May Not Be Uninhabitable: Evidence from a Desert Lichen

Desert Lichen Offers New Evidence For The Possibility Of Life On Other Planets

Extremeophiles and Extreme Environments

Desert Lichen Offers New Evidence For The Possibility Of Life On Other Planets

When A Desert Planet And Ocean Planet Mix: A Saharan Dust Plume

Atmospheres, Climate, Weather

When A Desert Planet And Ocean Planet Mix: A Saharan Dust Plume

Resilience of Metabolically Active Biofilms of a Desert Cyanobacterium Capable of Far-Red Photosynthesis Under Mars-like Conditions

Extremeophiles and Extreme Environments

Resilience of Metabolically Active Biofilms of a Desert Cyanobacterium Capable of Far-Red Photosynthesis Under Mars-like Conditions

BASEPROD: The Bardenas Semi-Desert Planetary Rover Dataset

Robotics/Rovers/UAVs

BASEPROD: The Bardenas Semi-Desert Planetary Rover Dataset

Prospecting the First Chilean Martian Simulants From the Atacama Desert for ISRU and Potential Applications

Analog Studies

Prospecting the First Chilean Martian Simulants From the Atacama Desert for ISRU and Potential Applications

Desert Planet Orbital Recon: MRO Images Mars InSight Lander to Study Dust Movement

Mars

Desert Planet Orbital Recon: MRO Images Mars InSight Lander to Study Dust Movement

Living Microbes Discovered In Earth’s Driest Desert

Extremeophiles and Extreme Environments

Living Microbes Discovered In Earth’s Driest Desert

Away Team Droid Tech: ReachBot Field Tests in a Mojave Desert Lava Tube as a Martian Analog

Robotics/Rovers/UAVs

Away Team Droid Tech: ReachBot Field Tests in a Mojave Desert Lava Tube as a Martian Analog

Orbital View Of A Desert World: No, This Is Not Sietch Tabr On Arrakis

Astrogeology

Orbital View Of A Desert World: No, This Is Not Sietch Tabr On Arrakis

The Extremotolerant Desert Moss Syntrichia caninervis Is A Promising Pioneer Plant For Colonizing Extraterrestrial Environments

Plant Biology

The Extremotolerant Desert Moss Syntrichia caninervis Is A Promising Pioneer Plant For Colonizing Extraterrestrial Environments

How Soil Microbes Survive In Harsh Desert Environments

Extremeophiles and Extreme Environments

How Soil Microbes Survive In Harsh Desert Environments

Novel Endolithic Bacteria Of phylum Chloroflexota Reveal A Myriad Of Potential Survival Strategies In The Antarctic Desert

Arctic / Antarctic / Alpine

Novel Endolithic Bacteria Of phylum Chloroflexota Reveal A Myriad Of Potential Survival Strategies In The Antarctic Desert