Mars habitability analogue environments on Earth | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 15/06/2019

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00:02:01 1 Precision of analogues
00:05:59 2 Atacama Desert
00:07:04 2.1 Yungay area
00:10:46 2.2 Maria Elena South
00:13:19 3 McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctica
00:14:24 3.1 Don Juan Pond
00:15:51 3.2 Blood Falls
00:20:48 4 Qaidam Basin
00:22:12 5 Mojave Desert
00:23:15 6 Other analogue deserts
00:23:54 7 Axel Heiberg Island (Canada)
00:26:10 7.1 Colour Lake Fen
00:27:41 8 Rio Tinto, Spain
00:28:59 9 Permafrost soils
00:29:39 10 Ice caves
00:30:18 11 Cave systems
00:30:44 11.1 Basaltic lava tubes
00:31:36 11.2 Lechuguilla Cave
00:32:30 11.3 Cueva de Villa Luz
00:33:17 11.4 Movile Cave
00:34:10 12 Magnesium sulfate lakes
00:38:00 13 Subglacial lakes
00:40:31 14 Subsurface life kilometers below the surface
00:41:00 14.1 Mponeng gold mine in South Africa
00:41:33 14.2 Boulby Mine on the edge of the Yorkshire moors
00:42:07 15 Alpine and permafrost lichens
00:42:59 16 See also



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Mars habitability analogue environments on Earth are environments that share potentially relevant astrobiological conditions with Mars. These include sites that are analogues of potential subsurface habitats, and deep subsurface habitats.A few places on Earth, such as the hyper-arid core of the high Atacama Desert and the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctica approach the dryness of current Mars surface conditions. In some parts of Antarctica, the only water available is in films of brine on salt / ice interfaces. There is life there, but it is rare, in low numbers, and often hidden below the surface of rocks (endoliths), making the life hard to detect. Indeed, these sites are used for testing sensitivity of future life detection instruments for Mars, furthering the study of astrobiology. For instance, as a location to test microbes for their ability to survive on Mars, and as a way to study how Earth life copes in conditions that resemble conditions on Mars.
Other analogues duplicate some of the conditions that may occur in particular locations on Mars. These include ice caves, the icy fumaroles of Mount Erebus, hot springs, or the sulfur rich mineral deposits of the Rio Tinto region in Spain. Other analogues include regions of deep permafrost and high alpine regions with plants and microbes adapted to aridity, cold and UV radiation with similarities to Mars conditions.