https://www.earthmagazine.org/tags/inclusion/ Recent content in Inclusion on EARTH Magazine Hugo en-US American Geosciences Institute. All rights reserved. Thu, 05 Jan 2012 06:41:58 -0500 https://www.earthmagazine.org/article/bacteria-back-brink/ Thu, 05 Jan 2012 06:41:58 -0500 https://www.earthmagazine.org/article/bacteria-back-brink/ <figure class="earth-figure"> <img src="https://www.americangeosciences.org/static/earth/bacteria-back-brink/i-453-7db-3-7.jpg" alt="Layered salt crystals, colored pink and green from trapped microorganisms. From a layered salt pan in Saline Valley, Calif. Michael Timofeeff" loading="eager" decoding="async"> <figcaption>Layered salt crystals, colored pink and green from trapped microorganisms. From a layered salt pan in Saline Valley, Calif. Michael Timofeeff</figcaption> </figure> <figure class="earth-figure"> <img src="https://www.americangeosciences.org/static/earth/bacteria-back-brink/i-452-7db-3-7.jpg" alt="A microbial bloom of living, green _Dunaliella _algae found within a fluid inclusion in a salt crystal. Michael Timofeeff" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> <figcaption>A microbial bloom of living, green _Dunaliella _algae found within a fluid inclusion in a salt crystal. Michael Timofeeff</figcaption> </figure> <p>Thousand- and million-year-old microbes found living in salt crystals:  Could they also exist on other planets?</p>