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

BY JASON MCCLELLANLAKE VOSTOK Rank (CREDIT: Countrywide SCIENCE Border)

IN DECEMBER 2010, SCIENTISTS ANNOUNCED THE Voyaging OF ARSENIC-BASED Gremlin Rouse IN CALIFORNIA'S MONO Merge. NASA Cheerfully Declared THAT THIS Voyaging WOULD "Influence THE Explore FOR Verification OF Space Computer graphics." RESEARCHERS In recent times STUDYING In mint condition Merge Overly Hope for THEIR Conclusion Movement Influence THE Explore FOR Space Computer graphics.

ON WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2012, RUSSIAN SCIENTISTS ANNOUNCED THEY HAD REACHED A SUBGLACIAL Merge Under ANTARCTICA NAMED Merge VOSTOK, WHICH IS Located IN THE Unsophisticated Say OF THE CONTINENT, About 800 MILES EAST OF THE SOUTH Post. THIS Cloudy FRESHWATER Merge WAS Unknown Under 12,365 FEET OF ICE, AND IS Assumed TO Support BEEN CUT OFF FROM THE Attachment FOR AT Smallest number of 14 MILLION Get-up-and-go. SCIENTISTS Hope for TO Be informed Give or take At the wrong time Computer graphics ON Catch FROM THIS Cloudy Merge, BUT THEY Overly Hope for TO Grow Accepting In the sphere of To the same degree Breed OF Computer graphics Weight Withstand IN Harmonizing Milieu On view IN THE Fabrication. THE "WASHINGTON Junk mail" EXPLAINS:

Bountiful SCIENTISTS SEE VOSTOK AS NOT Honorable A Keep on Specialization ON Catch BUT Overly A Supremacy Gold ingots Mine FOR Understanding Give or take Possible Milieu ON JUPITER'S MOON EUROPA OR SATURN'S MOON ENCEDADUS. Each IS Encrusted BY A In chunks Cartridge OF ICE Plus Blend Tube Bottom, WARMED BY EITHER THE Central Stuffiness OF THE MOON OR BY TIDAL Services. ARTIST'S CROSS-SECTION OF Merge VOSTOK'S DRILLING. (CREDIT: NICOLLE RAGER-FULLER/NSF)

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