Researchers collecting rock samples in Antarctica in the 1960s
Polarlock repository
Microorganisms that live under Antarctica ice sheets can survive in methane produced by geothermal heat rising from the depths of the Earth’s surface. This discovery could have an impact on assessing the likelihood that life will survive beyond the Earth and in the ice world.
“These can be hotspots for microorganisms that are adapted to live in these areas,” he says. Gavin Pipione At Brown University in Rhode Island.
We already know that methane is under the ice sheet in Antarctica. other…
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