Antarctic Expedition To Track Down Extreme Living Creatures

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday February 10, 2008 @05:06AM from the don't-forget-your-swimsuit dept.

WirePosted tips us to a story about a group of scientists who are heading to Antarctica to study organisms that thrive in climates too extreme for most other life forms. The team will be visiting a lake that has a pH "like strong Clorox," the sediments of which "produce more methane than any other natural body of water on our planet." The scientists hope to learn about the potential for life in other unforgiving climates, such as those on Mars or the various ice-covered moons in the Solar System. Expedition leader Richard Hoover was quoted saying, "This will help us decide where to search for life on other planets and how to recognize alien life if we actually find it." We've previously discussed Antarctic microbes as they related to conditions on Mars.

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Re:Oh they'll find it by vhogemann · 2008-02-10 07:18 · Score: 3, Informative

Unfortunatelly I don't have mod points... Let's see how long it takes until someone mod you up.

Until then, let me enlight the rest of you that didn't got the reference:

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/At_the_Mountains_of_Madness

Great history.

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