The scientists, mostly from the United States, think learning how Licancabur organisms protect themselves may help researchers understand how life survived on early Earth and perhaps on early Mars as well.

• 以美国科学家为主的许多科学家都认为，研究利坎卡武尔火山的有机生物如何自我保护能够启发人们认识在早期的地球，生物是如何生存下来的，甚至也可以由此类推到早期的火星生命形态上去。