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Responsible Thematic Node: Interiors & Surfaces

Short Name: Tunisian Chott El Jerid

Brief description: TNA1: Field analogue for extremely harsh temperature, dust and chemical environment

URL: http://www.isa.au.dk/networks/euroPlanet/facilities/tna1/chottElJerid.html

Type: CONTACT/Facility

English Language: YES

Restricted access: NO

Comment on the access:
For visiting of the facility, contact
Felipe Gómez Gómez
Extremophiles Laboratory
Carretera de Ajalvir,
Km 4 Torrejón de Ardoz
Madrid, Spain
Email: gomezgf@inta.es
Phone 00 34 91 520 6461
Fax 00 34 91 520 1074

Longer description:
Tunisian Chott El Jerid is a seasonal lake of about 580 Km2 that is completely dry most of the year. The Surface of the lake is covered with a hard NaCl crust covering underground water. Given the extremely harsh temperature, dust and chemical environment, this extreme environment is an excellent location for validation and testing of communications systems and planetary instrumentation under dry and corrosive conditions. From the astrobiology point of view it represents an ideal environment to test how life may adapt to extreme saline conditions.

EPN location (lab or institute): INTA-CAB

Contributor: Schmidt

Last updater: Tirsch

Responsible: Gómez Gómez

Other Contact (name): Mari Paz Blanco

Other Contact (email): blancotp@inta.es

This is a copy (not an original): NO

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