Lorenzo Palma, Science in Chile. Every year more than 100,000 visitors arrive early in the morning, when the sun has not yet appeared in the Andes Mountains. They make an effort enduring the cold, the puna and getting up early to see some of the 40 geysers or 60 hot springs and 70 fumaroles that form the complex. They say that it is best appreciated before sunrise to see how the water emerges at 90 degrees Celsius and at an impressive and dangerous pressure.

The Southern Ocean is conceived as a natural laboratory, which presents unique and challenging characteristics for any organism, such as low temperatures and high radiation, and despite this, they recently confirmed the presence of more than 2000 previously unidentified virus genomes.

Interview with Dr. Beatriz Díez for Paula Magazine – La Tercera For Beatriz Díez (47) it’s all about the sea, that dark and immeasurable mass

A group of researchers from Chile is studying at more than 4,200 meters above sea level different viruses in the water of the geysers of the El Tatio geothermal field, in the Andes Mountains, in the middle of the Atacama Desert.