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This is Scientific American's 60-second science. I'm Christopher in Taliatta.

The Atacama Desert in Chile is one of the driest spots on Earth.

Sometimes, can't even see any life at all.

As I was a kid, those drives were really boring because there was nothing to see.

Armando Asua Bustos was born and raised in the Atacama.

He's now an astrobiologist at the Spanish National Research Council's Center for Astrobiology.

And he says, with closer inspection, life can be found there.

But you have to take a microscope in order to see microorganisms in those giant places in the Takama.

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 thought, looking at the microscope, I couldn't see anything.

This is surprising. I was expecting to at a microscope, I couldn't see anything. This is 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,

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