NASA Ames Research Center News and Features Update

NASA's Spaceward Bound Goes to the Deserts of the United Arab Emirates

Wed, 09 Mar 2011 23:00:00 -0600

Whether or not you remember the winter of 2011 as unusually cold or snowy, an adventurous team of experts will remember its intense heat, as they searched for microbial life between sand dunes in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). They were searching for simple life forms that also may exist on other planets.