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Tents are set up against a backdrop of hills iin the Atacama Desert.

Camping on “Mars” – Atacama Rover Astrobiology Drilling Studies

The driest place on Earth, with very few microorganisms to be found in the soil, Chile’s Atacama Desert offers NASA scientists and engineers a realistic situation in which to practice searching for signs of life on Mars.

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