EPSC 2018: Candy-pink lagoon serves up salt-rich diet for potential life on Mars

Europlanet Research Infrastructure: Candy-pink lagoon serves up salt-rich diet for potential life on Mars The discovery of a microorganism that gives a candy-pink lagoon in central Spain its startling colour is providing new evidence for how life could survive on a high-salt diet on Mars or Europa. The Laguna de Peña Hueca, part of the Lake Tirez system in La Mancha, has very high concentrations of salt and sulphur and is a good analogue for chloride deposits found in the Southern highlands of ...