We've been reading a lot of stories about Europa and ETL, now this appears. Is this part of a conditioning process, or is this all a coincidence?
WASHINGTON — In a surprising discovery about where higher life can thrive, scientists for the first time found a shrimp-like creature and a jellyfish frolicking beneath a massive Antarctic ice sheet.
Six hundred feet below the ice where no light shines, scientists had figured nothing much more than a few microbes could exist.
That's why a NASA team was surprised when they lowered a video camera to get the first long look at the underbelly of an ice sheet in Antarctica. A curious shrimp-like creature came swimming by and then parked itself on the camera's cable. Scientists also pulled up a tentacle they believe came from a foot-long jellyfish.
Read the article here.
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Hey Chris - reminds me of a story brought out over at Enterprisemission about ten years back. A bit of conspiracy surrounding the drilling into subglacial Lake Vostok - perhaps encountering some mysterious contageous bacteria. I checked for some updates and found this dated from Feb 22 of this year.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/The-Surface-of-Lake-Vostok-Within-Reach-135621.shtml
Cool- thanks for the link!
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