A team led by New Horizons team member Jeffrey Moore, a research scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley, has determined that formation of the bladed terrain begins with methane freezing out of the atmosphere at extreme altitudes on Pluto, in the same way frost freezes on the ground on Earth, or even in your freezer. (astrobio.net)
Oriente Petrolero are from Santa Cruz de la Sierra, a low lying city without the conditions of extreme altitude — which many visitors to Bolivia find so troublesome. (espnfc.us)
Christner holds up a petri dish containing colonies mottled with beige, black, and white: an indication that these bacteria produce dehydration - resistant spores that could help them survive at extreme altitudes. (discovermagazine.com)