Sentences with phrase «microbes under the ice»

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Samples from Lake Whillans, hidden under ice, contain thousands of microbes and hint at vast ecosystems yet to be discovered

Frigid Europa may be warmed by a layer under its crust that moves heat and ice to and from its poles — and alien microbes could be hitching a ride

Microbes have been discovered on Earth wherever anyone has looked for them, from the boiling waters of Yellowstone's hot springs in Wyoming to the depths of cold, dark Antarctic lakes under 800 metres of ice.

Nor do we adequately understand the relative contributions of microbes (i.e., biogenic methanogenesis), fossil sources, and the dissociation of gas hydrates (an ice - like substance formed by methane and water under pressure).

We suggested that, given the documented flow of water beneath the ice sheet, perhaps sub-glacial rivers carried in the microbes, and Tranter responded, «People would have laughed at you a decade ago, but there is a river system under the ice sheet.

In either case, as the ice grew, these microbes would have remained alive even as the sediment and lake were buried under ice.

Previous reports of microbes from other lakes under the Antarctic ice have met skepticism, due to the possibility of contamination by surface microbes.