Earth Doesn’t Get Weirder Than The Bubbling Springs Of Ethiopia

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Clouds of sulphur and chlorine over sulphur-rich salt deposits.Felipe Gomez/Europlanet 2020 RI

It might look like a drug-induced vision of hell, but for astrobiologists, the Danakil Depression in Ethiopia is heaven. With chlorine and sulfur vapor fogs hanging above its near-boiling, bubbling salty lakes, it is one of the least hospitable places in the world.