NASA finds life at 200 meters below the ice of Antarctica
Washington, March 16 (EFE) .- La NASA has detected the existence of two living nearly 200 feet below the layer Antarctic ice, in darkness, a discovery that alters the theories about the conditions under which life can develop.
In a statement released today, the U.S. agency says it has found a "Lyssianasid amphipod, a shrimp-like creature or shrimp, and about three inches size. Furthermore, he found what looked like the tentacle of a jellyfish, about 30 centimeters.
A team NASA introduced a small video camera through the thick ice and brought down in the deep sea, where darkness reigns. At about 190 meters was found and photographed the crustacean that, despite its small size, has succeeded in breaking the principles established so far on the extreme conditions which can be life.
Until now, scientists believed that only a few microbes were able to live in these conditions.
NASA's discovery could lead expeditions in search of life to places so far ruled out in space, like planets or moons frozen. "We were working with the assumption that we would not to find anything, "said NASA scientist Robert Bindschadler, who presented the video of the discovery in tomorrow's meeting of the American Geophysical Union." It is a shrimp like you have on your plate, "he joked
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scientist qualified that the "Lyssianasid amphipod" not exactly a shrimp or a prawn, although it is a distant cousin of this species.
