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NASA DISCOVERS LIFE HIDDEN 600 FEET BELOW ANTARCTIC ICE
CNN
March 16, 2010
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/03/16/nasa-discovers-life-hidden-600-feet-bel
ow-antarctic-ice/
A three-inch long Lyssianasid amphipod (seen in orange) was
found on the underside of the McMurdo ice shelf in
Antarctica.
Six hundred feet below the Antarctic ice, where no light can
be found, NASA scientists made a startling discovery -- a
swimming shrimp-like creature that could challenge the idea
of where and how forms of life can survive.
While the creature is small itself -- only about three inches
long -- its impact could be tremendous.
A NASA team had lowered a small video camera to get the
first-ever photograph of the underside of an ice shelf – and
that's when they saw the swimming creature, according to a
NASA document.
The discovery could shake the very foundation of what kind of
creatures can survive in certain atmospheres.
"We were operating on the presumption that nothing's there,"
NASA ice scientist Robert Bindschadler told the Associated
Press. "It was a shrimp you'd enjoy having on your plate."
"We were just gaga over it," he told the AP.
The creature, a Lyssianasid amphipod, could lead the way for
larger expeditions into harsher environments that scientists
previously believed could not support life -- both on the
Earth and even frozen moons in outer space.
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