{"id":17561,"date":"2022-01-28T09:49:37","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T09:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/?p=17561"},"modified":"2022-01-28T09:49:37","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T09:49:37","slug":"harsh-volcanic-lake-suggests-how-life-might-have-existed-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/harsh-volcanic-lake-suggests-how-life-might-have-existed-mars\/17561\/","title":{"rendered":"Extremely harsh volcanic lake suggests how life might have existed on Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"
Researchers discover that a few specialist microbes found in a volcanic lake can survive conditions similar to those of Mars\u2019 early history.<\/h2>\n
The hydrothermal crater lake of the Po\u00e1s volcano in Costa Rica is one of the most hostile habitats on the planet. The water in this volcanic lake is ultra-acidic and filled with toxic metals, with temperatures ranging from comfortable to boiling. In addition, recurrent \u2018phreatic eruptions\u2019 produce sudden explosions of steam, ash and rock. Despite such deadly eruptions, hydrothermal environments could possibly be where the earliest forms of life began on Earth<\/a>\u2014and potentially also on Mars.<\/p>\n