Article: Life on Mars. (technology).(microbes found in Dry Valleys of Antarctic suggest possibility of life on Mars)(Brief Article)

Article: Landscapes on buried glaciers in Antarctica's dry ...
M2 Presswire;  December 19, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... in Antarctica's dry valleys help decipher recent ice ages on Mars(C)1994-2003 ... in the Antarctic Dry Valleys helps us read the Mars record," said Marchant ... geologic processes on Mars and those in the Dry Valleys holds true, then ...

Geoffrey Slostad, an engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and an ...
KRT Photos;  February 22, 1999 ;     396 words ... ... STORY SLUGGED: ANTARCTICA-MARS KRT PHOTOGRAPH BY DAVID PAIGE ... robot arm he designed for the Mars Polar Lander in the frozen soil of Antarctica's Dry Valleys. When the lander arrives at the south pole of Mars in December, the arm will scoop ...

Article: Improbable Eden: The Dry Valleys of ...
Arctic;  December 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... This colorful book on the Dry Valleys--"a wilderness of ... McMurdo Sound. Why are the Dry Valleys considered to be so important ... terrain so analogous to Mars and the Moon that astronauts ... have trained there. The Dry Valleys are part of the Transantarctic ...

Article: Kiwi scientists seek answers in Dry Valleys
The Press;  November 18, 2000 ;     642 words ... ... viability of colonisation of Mars. Dr Dickinson says the ... between the two is that the Dry Valleys, one of the few parts ... to be the landforms of Mars. The exciting part is ... higher reaches of the Dry Valleys that there is frozen ... proves to be the case on Mars, the presence ...

Article: Tiny fossils take Antarctic Dry Valleys' origin ...
The Hindustan Times;  July 24, 2008 ;     640 words ... ... to Antarctica's remarkable Dry Valleys, a landscape akin to Mars, estimating it to date back ... told BBC News. Antarctica's Dry Valleys, with their barren gravel ... the closest place on Earth to Mars. The air that falls into the ...

Article: On the dry valleys of the Kalahari: documentary ...
The Geographical Journal;  July 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... the degree to which information from dry valleys is in accordance with other historical ... 1971). The earliest accounts of dry valleys included in this study date back to ... for environmental change in Kalahari dry valleys, it is appropriate to outline the major ...

Article: Inland diatoms from the McMurdo Dry Valleys and ...
Canadian Journal of Botany;  December 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... examined the diatom flora of the McMurdo Dry Valleys of East Antarctica to place the understanding ... representation of species. The McMurdo Dry Valleys possess a number of closely related ... within the genus Muelleria. The McMurdo Dry Valleys are extreme cold desert environments ...