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In an Isolated, Ice-Covered Antarctic Lake Far Below Freezing, Life is Found

November 30, 2012

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter Lake Vida lies within one of Antarctica’s cold, arid McMurdo Dry Valleys (Photo: Desert Research Institute) Even inside an almost completely frozen lake within Antarctica’s inland dry valleys, in dark, salt-laden and sub-freezing water full of nitrous oxide, life thrives… offering [...]

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Europa Analog Deep-Sea Vents Discovered in the Caribbean

July 22, 2010

White sand, blue water, sunny skies, pina coladas. When you think of “extreme environments” I doubt the Caribbean is high on your list. But a team of scientists from Woods Hole Oceanographic institute and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, exploring the 68-mile-long Mid-Cayman rise deep beneath the surface of the Caribbean, have discovered the deepest known [...]

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Extremophiles

April 6, 2010

Extremophiles are organisms that thrive in, and may require, physically, or geo-chemically extreme conditions to live. These conditions are always detrimental to the majority of life on Earth. In the 1980s and 1990s, biologists found that microbial life has an amazing flexibility for surviving in extreme environments. Some of this life survive in niches that [...]

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