Life on Mars may also "drift with the wind."

BEIJING, Aug. 25 (Xinhua Zhang Mengran) According to a recent report published in the Scientific Report of nature research, a team of European scientists has conducted a simulation study in the Earth's deserts that found that there are living microorganisms on Mars, and may also be able to drift with dust particles in the wind on Mars.
in the Atakama Desert in northern Chile, is a famous Mars simulation base on Earth. This time, Armando Azu Bustos, a scientist at the Spanish Center for Astrobiology, and his colleagues examined in detail whether living microorganisms could drift along the Atakama Desert with dust particles in the wind. The team believes that if the source of microorganisms can be identified, it could
important to understanding microbial life in the environment.
team selected three sampling points in two areas running through the arid core area of
in the Atakama Desert, collecting a total of 23 bacterial and 8 fungal species. In addition to extreme drought, the core area also has saline/oxidized soil and extremely high levels of ultraviolet radiation. The researchers found that only three species existed in all sample belts, suggesting that different parts of the desert have different air ecosystems.
and fungal species identified in these samples include the earliest small trout ocean spores found in the water environment, as well as simple Bacillus spores derived from plants. Based on these observations,
found in the arid core areas of the United States, possibly from coastal mountains in the Pacific Ocean and deserts.
researchers also found that microbial cells collected in the morning were more likely to come from surrounding areas, while dust particles carried in the wind in the afternoon blew ocean aerosols and microbial life from remote areas. The results suggest that living microbes can successfully cross the driest and most ultraviolet radiation deserts on Earth. It is further speculated that potential microbes on Mars could spread in a similar manner.