On Earth, there’s life everywhere – well, almost everywhere, one exception being the geothermal fields in the Ethiopian region of Dallol. Researchers have detected at least primitive bacteria almost everywhere: on the highest mountains, in hydrothermal vents, in corrosive lakes, and even deep in the oceans. Scientists have even found traces of life hundreds of meters below the bottom of the sea, as reported in an article in the magazine, Communications Biology. In their research, the scientists looked, in particular, at the Earth’s upper oceanic crust. It consists of basaltic lava, which has been deposited there from the depths…