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Rocks in Chile Help Scientists Hunt for Life on Mars

by M. McKinnon 9 August 201612 April 2022

Investigating oxalate minerals in the Atacama Desert provides a terrestrial analogue to test techniques that could be used to study the carbon cycle in the cold deserts of Mars.

A volcanic ash plume dwarfs the city of Puerto Montt in southern Chile just after the start of the eruption of Calbuco volcano on 22 April 2015.
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Volcanic Lightning Could Aid Hazard Response During Eruptions

Sarah Stanley, Science Writer by Sarah Stanley 15 April 201627 February 2024

Lightning and ash plume dynamics reflected eruption behavior and signaled the onset of fast-moving rock and gas flows during the 2015 eruption of Chile's Calbuco volcano.

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