Antarctica Microbes Offer Hope for Alien Life
If scientists find microbes in a frigid lake two miles beneath the thick ice of Antarctica, it will illustrate once again that somehow life finds a way to survive in the strangest and harshest places. And it will offer hope that life exists beyond Earth. Russian researchers reported that they had reached Lake Vostok, a pristine body of water untouched by light or wind for about 20 million years. They want to know what type of microbial life - bacteria too small to see - might exist there.
Finding microbes may not sound like much. But they were the first form of Earth life eons before plants and animals existed. If scientists find these tiny germs in Lake Vostok, it bolsters already strong hope that elsewhere in our solar system, life also might exist where once it didn’t seem possible.
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