Worlds Revealed Speaker Series | How to Find Life, from Antarctica to Mars with Gavin Moriarty

Learn how scientists are using the extreme-dwelling microbes of Antarctica's Mars-like Dry Valleys to develop the tools needed to detect life beyond Earth.

Could Antarctica hold the secret to finding life on Mars?

The McMurdo Dry Valleys are the closest environment Earth has to that of the surface of Mars: brutally cold, searingly dry, and teeming with microscopic life that has no business surviving there. In this sequel talk, discover how scientists are pushing the boundaries of astrobiology, using Antarctica’s extremophiles to sharpen the tools we’ll one day use to detect life across the cosmos.