Explained: What is the Danakil Depression? | Explained News, The Indian Express

Explained: What is the Danakil Depression? | Explained News, The Indian Express

Written by Om Marathe |New Delhi |Updated: November 5, 2019 7:14:23 am

Explained: What is the Danakil Depression?

Microbes are known to survive almost anywhere. Scientists now believe that this place is an exception.

The Danakil Depression in northeastern Ethiopia is one of the world’s hottest places, as well as one of its lowest, at 100 metres below sea level.

Extremophile microbes can adapt to environmental conditions that are too extreme for everything else. New research, however, has pointed to a place on Earth — bubbling pools of water and mounds of salt covering its landscape — that is too daunting even for these microorganisms.