Benito Gómez‐Silva

Mars-Like Soils in the Atacama Desert, Chile, and the Dry Limit of Microbial Life

R. Navarro‐González, Fred A. Rainey, Paola Molina et al. · Science · 2003 · 595 citations

Agriculture, Microbiology, Soil Sciences +13

Temperature and Moisture Conditions for Life in the Extreme Arid Region of the Atacama Desert: Four Years of Observations Including the El Niño of 1997–1998

Christopher P. McKay, E. Imre Friedmann, Benito Gómez‐Silva et al. · Astrobiology · 2003 · 386 citations

Natural Sciences, Earth Sciences, Meteorology +17

Hypolithic Cyanobacteria, Dry Limit of Photosynthesis, and Microbial Ecology in the Hyperarid Atacama Desert

Kimberley Warren‐Rhodes, Kevin L. Rhodes, Stephen B. Pointing et al. · Microbial Ecology · 2006 · 355 citations

Life Sciences, Ecology, Microbiology +17

Facilitation of endolithic microbial survival in the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert by mineral deliquescence

Alfonso F. Dávila, Benito Gómez‐Silva, Asunción de los Rı́os et al. · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 2008 · 183 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Earth Sciences, Microbiology +17

Microbial colonization of Ca-sulfate crusts in the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert: implications for the search for life on Mars

Jacek Wierzchoś, Beatríz Cámara, Asunción de los Rı́os et al. · Geobiology · 2010 · 174 citations

Life Sciences, Ecology, Microbiology +15