Great Kobuk Sand Dunes (IMAGE)

Southwest Research Institute

Great Kobuk Sand Dunes

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The Great Kobuk Sand Dunes encompass 25 squares miles in Alaska’s Kobuk Valley National Park. With a new NASA grant, Southwest Research Institute will identify and characterize life and its biosignatures in frozen sand dunes to offer insight into how microbial life could form in similarly harsh environments on other worlds.

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