Ojos del Salado - as a Martian Landscape
The June issue of Astrobiology is based on the special results of Andean research with the basic participation of our Institut. The decades-long study of the highest part of the Atacama Desert is carried out in collaboration with the relevant departments of our institute (Physical Geography, Environmental and Landscape Geography, Physical and Applied Geology, Meteorology) and the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences Hungarian Academy of Sciences and foreign research sites.
Introduction
Cold, Dry, Windy, and UV Irradiated: Surveying Mars-Relevant Conditions in Ojos del Salado Volcano (Andes Mountains, Chile)
Ákos Kereszturi, Júlia M. Aszalós, Zsolt Heiling, Ádam Ignéczi, Zsuzsanna Kapui, Csilla Király, Szabolcs Leél-Össy, Balázs Nagy, Zsombor Nemerkényi, Bernadett Pál, Ágnes Skultéti, and Zoltan Szalai Read Now
Research Articles
Analog Site Experiment in the High Andes-Atacama Region: Surface Energy Budget Components on Ojos del Salado from Field Measurements and WRF Simulations
Hajnalka Breuer, Alexandra Berényi, László Mari, Balázs Nagy, Zoltán Szalai, Ágoston Tordai, and Tamás Weidinger Read Now
The Thermal Behavior of Ice-Bearing Ground: The Highest Cold, Dry Desert on Earth as an Analog for Conditions on Mars, at Ojos del Salado, Puna de Atacama-Altiplano Region
Balázs Nagy, József Kovács, Ádám Ignéczi, Szabolcs Beleznai, László Mari, Ákos Kereszturi, and Zoltán Szalai Read Now
Unique and Potentially Mars-Relevant Flow Regime and Water Sources at a High Andes-Atacama Site
Ákos Kereszturi Read Now
Effects of Active Volcanism on Bacterial Communities in the Highest-Altitude Crater Lake of Ojos del Salado (Dry Andes, Altiplano-Atacama Region)
Júlia Margit Aszalós, Attila Szabó, Tamás Felföldi, Laura Jurecska, Balázs Nagy, and Andrea K. Borsodi Read Now
Bacterial Diversity of a High-Altitude Permafrost Thaw Pond Located on Ojos del Salado (Dry Andes, Altiplano-Atacama Region)
Júlia Margit Aszalós, Attila Szabó, Melinda Megyes, Dóra Anda, Balázs Nagy, and Andrea K. Borsodi Read Now