Why the Search for Life on Mars Is Happening in Canada’s Arctic - WIRED

Scientists show how microbes living in a salty spring near the North Pole might resemble those that could have survived on the Red Planet—or in ocean worlds.

Only the hardiest organisms can thrive in one of the coldest springs on earth. Thats why in the summers of 2017 and 2019, Lyle Whyte took a helicopter to Lost Hammer Spring in the unpopulated High Ar… [+3328 chars]

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