Microbes Found Beneath Antarctic Ice: What It Means for Alien Life Hunt

Wednesday, August 20, 2014 - 12:20 in Earth & Climate

The discovery of a microbial ecosystem deep beneath the Antarctic ice doesn't necessarily mean that life teems on frigid worlds throughout the solar system, researchers caution: subglacial Lake Whillans is not a closed system like Jupiter's moon Europa.

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