Antartic

A 140,000-Year-Old Organism Discovered in Antarctica’s Ice-Shrouded Lake Vostok

April 23, 2011
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Antarctic's ancient ice-bound Lake Vostok.

An ancient living laboratory of our planet’s past in Antarctica may have provided a preview of what we can expect to find deep below the barren surface of Mars and in the ice-shrouded seas of Jupiter’s Europa. Two of the world’s leading experts on life at the lower temperature extremes, Buford Price of the University of California, Berkeley and Todd Sowers of Penn State observed that microbes colonizing life appear to have two levels...

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Antarctic Drilling Plan Raises Concerns

February 9, 2011
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Antarctic Drilling Plan Raises Concerns

Russian scientists used kerosene to keep a drilled hole open in the remote Antarctic Lake Vostok writes Eric Niiler for Discovery News. The big mystery of Lake Vostok and whether it holds ancient microbial life will have to wait for another Antarctic winter to pass. A team of Russian researchers left their remote drilling site this week with less than 50 feet to go to break into the surface of a vast underground lake...

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