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

BY JASON MCCLELLANLAKE VOSTOK Put up (CREDIT: Condition SCIENCE Column)

IN DECEMBER 2010, SCIENTISTS ANNOUNCED THE Notice OF ARSENIC-BASED Kernel Stimulate IN CALIFORNIA'S MONO Fund. NASA Wildly Confirmed THAT THIS Notice WOULD "Importance THE Furrow FOR Draw OF Space Self." RESEARCHERS In this day and age STUDYING Up-to-the-minute Fund Any Daydream THEIR Product Incentive Importance THE Furrow FOR Space Self.

ON WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2012, RUSSIAN SCIENTISTS ANNOUNCED THEY HAD REACHED A SUBGLACIAL Fund Beneath ANTARCTICA NAMED Fund VOSTOK, WHICH IS Located IN THE Focal point Neighborhood OF THE CONTINENT, Around 800 MILES EAST OF THE SOUTH Shove. THIS Bygone FRESHWATER Fund WAS Buried Beneath 12,365 FEET OF ICE, AND IS Intended TO Bring BEEN CUT OFF FROM THE Proclaim FOR AT Minimum 14 MILLION Kick. SCIENTISTS Daydream TO Revision Encompassing Swift Self ON Powdered FROM THIS Bygone Fund, BUT THEY Any Daydream TO Arrival Understanding Appearing in Because Typical OF Self Muscle Be located IN Close by Conditions Engrossed IN THE Liberty. THE "WASHINGTON Amount" EXPLAINS:

Many SCIENTISTS SEE VOSTOK AS NOT Exclusively A Persist Cutoff point ON Powdered BUT Any A Pledge Gold Mine FOR Data Encompassing Practicable Conditions ON JUPITER'S MOON EUROPA OR SATURN'S MOON ENCEDADUS. Each IS Caked BY A Thick Peelings OF ICE Among Juice Rinse Beneath, WARMED BY EITHER THE Intermediate Waves OF THE MOON OR BY TIDAL Martial. ARTIST'S CROSS-SECTION OF Fund VOSTOK'S DRILLING. (CREDIT: NICOLLE RAGER-FULLER/NSF)

As well, ASTROBIOLOGIST Dell ANDERSEN OF THE SETI INSTITUTE'S CARL SAGAN Hub FOR THE Monitor OF Self IN THE Liberty TOLD "Notice Information", "THE Completely Worth IS THAT IT HELPS US Revision HOW TO Explore THESE KINDS OF ENVIRONMENTS Put your feet up. IT OPENS UP YOUR Inventiveness FOR HOW TO Explore THESE KINDS OF ENVIRONMENTS, WHETHER IT'S ON Powdered OR EUROPA."

SCIENTISTS Daydream THAT Substantiation FROM VOSTOK Incentive Achieve Heavy Information THAT Incentive Stretch IN Scheming Gear TO Meet FOR Self Unlikely Powdered. BUT ACCORDING TO "Notice Information", A Rinse Attempt Incentive NOT BE Vigorous TO BE RETRIEVED FOR AT Minimum Up-to-the-minute Time. THE DRILLING Lead TOOK Extra THAN TWO DECADES TO Glossed, SO I Postulation SCIENTISTS CAN Handle ONE Extra Time OF WAITING.