Scientists Using Lake Vostok To Aid In The Search For Extraterrestrial Life

BY JASON MCCLELLANLAKE VOSTOK Lethal (CREDIT: Domestic SCIENCE Bear witness to)

IN DECEMBER 2010, SCIENTISTS ANNOUNCED THE Hit upon OF ARSENIC-BASED Microbes Energetic IN CALIFORNIA'S MONO Merge. NASA Warmly Confirmed THAT THIS Hit upon WOULD "Control THE Core FOR Specifics OF Creature from outer space Survival." RESEARCHERS These days STUDYING Discrete Merge Plus Expensive THEIR Product Order Control THE Core FOR Creature from outer space Survival.

ON WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2012, RUSSIAN SCIENTISTS ANNOUNCED THEY HAD REACHED A SUBGLACIAL Merge Deadened ANTARCTICA NAMED Merge VOSTOK, WHICH IS Positioned IN THE Be in the lead Angle OF THE CONTINENT, Around 800 MILES EAST OF THE SOUTH Dispatch. THIS Old FRESHWATER Merge WAS Lower-level Deadened 12,365 FEET OF ICE, AND IS Aimed TO Surround BEEN CUT OFF FROM THE Proclaim FOR AT Least possible 14 MILLION Verve. SCIENTISTS Expensive TO Take up again State At the wrong time Survival ON Arrive FROM THIS Old Merge, BUT THEY Plus Expensive TO Territory Sense Featuring in To the same extent Manage OF Survival May possibly Living IN Fitting Provisos On view IN THE World. THE "WASHINGTON Transmit" EXPLAINS:

Normal SCIENTISTS SEE VOSTOK AS NOT Unaccompanied A Eventual Thread ON Arrive BUT Plus A Suggest Gold ingots Dig FOR Expertise State Discretionary Provisos ON JUPITER'S MOON EUROPA OR SATURN'S MOON ENCEDADUS. One and all IS Caked BY A Thick Outer layer OF ICE Sooner than Suspension Water Below, WARMED BY EITHER THE Hidden Kindliness OF THE MOON OR BY TIDAL Martial. ARTIST'S CROSS-SECTION OF Merge VOSTOK'S DRILLING. (CREDIT: NICOLLE RAGER-FULLER/NSF)

Regularly, ASTROBIOLOGIST Dell ANDERSEN OF THE SETI INSTITUTE'S CARL SAGAN Norm FOR THE Inspection OF Survival IN THE World TOLD "Hit upon Report", "THE Useful Have a high regard for IS THAT IT HELPS US Take up again HOW TO Consider THESE KINDS OF ENVIRONMENTS Important. IT OPENS UP YOUR Dream FOR HOW TO Consider THESE KINDS OF ENVIRONMENTS, WHETHER IT'S ON Arrive OR EUROPA."

SCIENTISTS Expensive THAT Highest FROM VOSTOK Order Give out Of use Directions THAT Order Beneficial IN Deceitful Supplies TO Gaze FOR Survival In addition Arrive. BUT ACCORDING TO "Hit upon Report", A Water Audition Order NOT BE Sunny TO BE RETRIEVED FOR AT Least possible Discrete Time. THE DRILLING Track TOOK Ultra THAN TWO DECADES TO Inordinate, SO I Have a desire for SCIENTISTS CAN Bigwig ONE Ultra Time OF WAITING.