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This is Scientific American — 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata.
The Atacama desert in Chile is one of the driest spots on Earth. Sometimes, you can't see any life at all. "As I was a kid those drives were very boring...because there was nothing to see." Armando Azua-Bustos was born and raised in Atacama. He's now an astrobiologist at the Spanish National Research Council's (CSIC) Center for Astrobiology. But he says, with closer inspection, life can be found. "There is life around, but you have to take a microscope in order to see microorganisms in those driest places in the Atacama."
Then in 2015, and again in 2017, freak storms from the Pacific flooded the Atacama. Ten times the usual amount of rain fell, turning some of the driest parts of the desert into lagoons. But the desert's hardy microbial life didn't exactly burst into bloom. "I start looking at the microscope and I couldn't see anything! That was surprising. I was expecting to see a zoo of little things moving all around. But I couldn't see anything."

In fact, after sampling three of the newly submerged areas, his team found only a quarter of the microscopic species they'd previously isolated in the desert region—perhaps, he says, because the water killed the rest, through a process called 'osmotic shock.' "The cell doesn't have the mechanisms to get all the water that is going into the cell to get it out, so they start inflating like a small balloon until they burst out." The results are in the journal Scientific Reports.
The microbial massacre should serve as a cautionary tale, he says, as we search for similar dry-adapted lifeforms on Mars. Because several of the life-detecting experiments performed by the Viking landers involved—you guessed it—adding water. And it would be tragic if we killed the first extraterrestrial life we found.
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智利的阿塔卡马沙漠是地球上最干旱的地区之一f0TDW2#[eVu。有时甚至根本看不到任何生命(hegbDXtyWU;U^0=EU。“我小时候，觉得开车旅行很无聊，因为根本没什么可看的YKqi^.GPiao^S。”阿曼多·阿苏阿·巴斯托斯在阿塔卡马出生并长大YQ+MlgcVd*。他现在是西班牙国家研究委员会（简称CSIC）天体生物学中心的天体生物学家XGmZ23Clq4nR#wE1hl。但他说，如果仔细观察，就能发现生命*WIml-c-kT。“周围有生命存在，但必须用显微镜才能在阿塔卡马沙漠最干旱的地方看到微生物#+.sE5;jN.^zHa=B。”
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谢谢大家收听科学美国人——60秒科学iww.z=@,ats#qw5。我是克里斯托弗·因塔利亚塔d&k5fGW2Br#Qm;。

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重点讲解

重点讲解：
1. burst into （花、叶等）突然绽放，突然长出；
The avenues lined with jacaranda trees burst into a carnival of purple.
大街的两旁种着蓝花楹，绽放的花朵汇成一片紫色的海洋79L)clsPjp6C(w。
2. all around 各处；
All around he could hear people calling out his name.
他听见人们在四周喊着他的名字v|PA]q#g!sps1E]^。
3. in fact 事实上，其实；
In fact, the oil companies are already prospecting not far from here.
事实上，石油公司已经在离此不远处进行勘探P@.NN,S=qoq1M(G],PYM。
4. burst out 突然出现；突然发生；
Then war burst out.
战争突然爆发UkcJ|LUw)8P。