Bubbling Springs of Life

This photo depicts a small bubbling hot spring in El Tatio geyser field, located in the Andes Mountains of northern Chile at 4,320 m above mean sea level. Its vibrant colors show bacterial growth within a hostile environment, which may point to places where life could exist and thrive on other hostile worlds such as Mars.

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South America (345)
Chile (91)
Exact location (-68.0130 W, -22.3349 S)

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5080 × 3387 px; image/jpeg; 14.9 MB
Camera: Nikon D7500
Software: Adobe Lightroom
Taken on 7 December 2024
Submitted on 31 March 2026

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Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-ND 3.0)

Credit

Emma Rogers (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

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