The microbial community found in the Atacama Desert, known as the 'grit crust', is a poly-extremotolerant organism that serves as a model for astrobiology research, as described in the 2022 study 'The grit crust: a poly-extremotolerant microbial community from the Atacama Desert as a model for astrobiology' published in Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences.

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