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.
Finalist in the EGU Photo Competition 2026
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Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-ND 3.0) (opens in a new window)Credit: Emma Rogers (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
Properties
Type
Image
Format
JPG
Size
14.9 MB
Width
5080 px
Height
3387 px
Aspect
5080:3387
Brand
Nikon
Model
D7500
Exposure
55 mm f/10 1/2500 s ISO 800
Software
Adobe Lightroom
Taken
7 December 2024
Coordinates
-22.3349, -68.0130
Tint
Brownish pink
Submitted
31 March 2026
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