地球上で最も火星によく似た場所
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TED2017
• April 2017
宇宙船も使わずにどうやって火星を研究できるのでしょうか？地球上で火星に最も似た環境下にあるチリのアタカマ砂漠に行けばいいのです。広大でしかも乾燥したこの場所で育った宇宙生物学者のアルマンド・アズア・ブストスは、過去400年間、降水記録の無い場所さえあるこの砂漠に生存する希少な生物を現在研究中です。この短くも楽しいトークを聞きながら、地球を離れることなく、宇宙のどこか他に生物を見出す可能性を探ってみましょう。
宇宙船も使わずにどうやって火星を研究できるのでしょうか？地球上で火星に最も似た環境下にあるチリのアタカマ砂漠に行けばいいのです。広大でしかも乾燥したこの場所で育った宇宙生物学者のアルマンド・アズア・ブストスは、過去400年間、降水記録の無い場所さえあるこの砂漠に生存する希少な生物を現在研究中です。この短くも楽しいトークを聞きながら、地球を離れることなく、宇宙のどこか他に生物を見出す可能性を探ってみましょう。
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TED Fellow Armando Azua-Bustos studies how microbial life has adapted to survive in the Atacama Desert, the driest place on Earth.
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- Armando Azua-Bustos, Carlos González-Silva, and Gino Corsini. 2017. The hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert, an extremely dry and carbon deprived habitat of potential interest for the field of carbon science. Frontiers in Microbiology.
- Domagal-Goldman S.D., Wright K.E., fourteen other authors, Azua-Bustos A., et al. 2016. The Astrobiology Primer v2.0. Astrobiology 16:561-653.
- A. Azua-Bustos, L. Caro-Lara, y R. Vicuña. 2015. Discovery and microbial content of the driest site of the hyperarid Atacama Desert, Chile. Environmental Microbiology Reports, 7(3): 388–394.
- Azua-Bustos A., González-Silva C. 2014. Biotechnological applications derived from microorganisms of the Atacama Desert. BioMed Research International, in its special edition BIODESERT: Exploring and Exploiting the Microbial Resource of Hot and Cold Deserts". Volume 2014, Article ID 909312, 7 pages.
- Azua-Bustos A., Arenas, C., and Vicuña, R. 2014. Gloeocapsopsis AAB1, an extremely desiccation-tolerant cyanobacterium isolated from the Atacama Desert. Extremophiles. 18(1):61-74.
- Azua-Bustos A. and Vega-Martínez, C. 2013. The potential for detecting life as we don’t know it by fractal complexity analysis. International Journal of Astrobiology. 12: 314–320.- Azua Bustos A., González-Silva C., and Arenas-Fajardo, C., Vicuña R. 2012. Extreme environments as potential drivers of convergent evolution by exaptation: the Atacama Desert Coastal Range case. Frontiers in Microbiology 3: 426.
- Azua-Bustos A., Urrejola C., and Vicuña R. 2012. Life at the dry edge: microorganisms of the Atacama Desert. FEBS Letters 586:2939–2945.
- Azua-Bustos A, González-Silva C, Mancilla R.A., Salas, L., Gómez-Silva B, McKay CP and Vicuña R. 2011. Hypolithic cyanobacteria supported mainly by fog in the Coastal Range of the Atacama Desert. Microbial Ecology. 61:568-581.
- Azua-Bustos, A., González-Silva, C., Salas L, Vicuña, R. 2010. A novel subaerial Dunaliella sp. Growing on cave spider webs in the Atacama Desert. Extremophiles 14(5): 443-452.
- Azua-Bustos A., González-Silva, C., Mancilla R.A., Salas L, Palma R.E., Wynne J.J., McKay, C.P. and Vicuña, R. 2009. Ancient Photosynthetic Eukaryote Biofilms in an Atacama Desert Coastal Cave. Microbial Ecology 58:485–496.
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