Bacteria Found Deep Under Antarctic Ice After drilling into Lake Whillans, a dark, isolated lake that lies under a half-mile of Antarctic ice, scientists have found bacteria living happily there. Everywhere on Earth that we look for life, from basking in rainbow-colored mineral ponds to laying dormant for 86 million years in seabed clay, we find life. If it can happen in all of these Earthly environments, just imagine what non-Earthly environments may hold. Science is so exciting. Let’s keep looking. (more on these cool bugs at the NY Times)
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Bacteria Found Deep Under Antarctic Ice

After drilling into Lake Whillans, a dark, isolated lake that lies under a half-mile of Antarctic ice, scientists have found bacteria living happily there.

Everywhere on Earth that we look for life, from basking in rainbow-colored mineral ponds to laying dormant for 86 million years in seabed clay, we find life.

If it can happen in all of these Earthly environments, just imagine what non-Earthly environments may hold. Science is so exciting. Let’s keep looking.

(more on these cool bugs at the NY Times)

Source: The New York Times

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