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NASA discovers life hidden 600 feet below 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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i've read so many comments here that just seem so ignorant. First of all we were not drilling, As as far as I know only the Russinas are drilling in Antartica and the other nation that is thiking of doing that same thing is the UK. The animal that they seem to have found is not new but has been found in other inhospitable places. It is just a badly written article.
How far from the edge of the iceshelf?
Couldn't the darn thing have justed drifted over?
I don't know how long a tiny shrimp could survive, but I am darn sure that if it drifted over, maybe some food did as well?
Is this obvious or am I mssing something? Was this 1000 miles from the edge of the shelf?
If so, I don't think it's melting as fast as they say!
Doesn't NASA stand for National Aeronautics and Space Administration? key words: AERONAUTICS & SPACE...why are they digging below antarctica?
Nasa spends money on this and the census B spends millions on advertising to send in your Census???? We got a letter (and so did you) just to tell us that the Census B is sending the Census!?!?! wonder what the cost of sending every American a letter telling them they are going to get a letter was?
I assume NASA is drilling through the Antarctic ice shelf to better understand how to make a probe/lander that can drill through the thick ice of Europa and other icy worlds to try and find life or gold, or golden life, or a working nuclear fusion reactor (that'd be too awesome). I bet they are pretty excited about finding anything that far under the Antarctic ice, although I don't know exactly why they were doubting life would be there. This is Earth after all.
They may have been looking for downed space ships who knows
Maybe we should be spending billions studying (oceams) and understanding this planet, berfore we further explore the Moon or Mars. Couldn't the deep sea exploration result in the kind of technology transfer that the space program has brought us?
Thanks I needed a laugh.
People need to stop being so selfish...All they can do is complain about the here and now. Since there is no immediate gratification from this discovery they all cry like babies about where that money is being spent. Let the scientists do their research and stop all of your blubbering.
This is the best news i have heard all day
Was this a gigantic discovery or was it just a shrimp?
FREE THE ARTIC SHRIMP!!!
read it, it says thats when we saw it swimming.
Maybe if they didn't drill so many holes in the ice it would slow down the melting of the ice caps?