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    This bodes well for extraterrestrial life within our solar system.

    Diverse life found deep in Antarctic lake

    American researchers have found a "diverse" colony of microbial life living in an ice-sealed Antarctic lake. The life survives at temperatures of 8.6 degrees Fahrenheit and could mean that life could survive in extreme conditions on Mars or other places in the Solar System.
    Antarctica is turning into an interesting place for this sort of research. Also interesting is the fact that Antarctica yields an impressive number of found meteorites, due to its unique environment. Being covered with ice year round, any "rocks" found on the surface almost always turn out to be meteorites, and the color contract, and lack of any other rocky material on the ice, makes their recovery easy. I'm betting Greenland works similarly, although the ice on Greenland is much more fluid and active.

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    I often wonder just what lays under all that ice n snow .

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      http://links.govdelivery.com/track?t...on_Saturn_moon

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        That is mindblowing... flowing rivers of hydrocarbons that cut canyons and erode like water.

        The moons of the gas giants are subject to some powerful gravitational and tidal forces that make them so much more than what they were supposed to be, which was simply smooth, frozen balls of boring. Instead, they are active, and what makes it so interesting is that they are all so different... Io, Europa, Titan, Ganymede, etc.

        You'd think they'd all be roughly the same, being formed out of the same debris that originally circled the planets.

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          Originally posted by Chogy View Post
          That is mindblowing... flowing rivers of hydrocarbons that cut canyons and erode like water.

          The moons of the gas giants are subject to some powerful gravitational and tidal forces that make them so much more than what they were supposed to be, which was simply smooth, frozen balls of boring. Instead, they are active, and what makes it so interesting is that they are all so different... Io, Europa, Titan, Ganymede, etc.

          You'd think they'd all be roughly the same, being formed out of the same debris that originally circled the planets.

          Thought you would like it ,;)

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            Originally posted by Chogy View Post
            That is mindblowing... flowing rivers of hydrocarbons that cut canyons and erode like water.

            The moons of the gas giants are subject to some powerful gravitational and tidal forces that make them so much more than what they were supposed to be, which was simply smooth, frozen balls of boring. Instead, they are active, and what makes it so interesting is that they are all so different... Io, Europa, Titan, Ganymede, etc.

            You'd think they'd all be roughly the same, being formed out of the same debris that originally circled the planets.
            Some of the moons were part and parcel of the local accretion materials while others were captured via gravitation. The puzzle pieces are many and varied :)
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              Hubble still performing brilliantly , check out the pics , cool , life has to be out there .

              NASA - NASA's Hubble Provides First Census of Galaxies Near Cosmic Dawn

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                Originally posted by Chogy View Post
                This bodes well for extraterrestrial life within our solar system.

                Diverse life found deep in Antarctic lake



                Antarctica is turning into an interesting place for this sort of research. Also interesting is the fact that Antarctica yields an impressive number of found meteorites, due to its unique environment. Being covered with ice year round, any "rocks" found on the surface almost always turn out to be meteorites, and the color contract, and lack of any other rocky material on the ice, makes their recovery easy. I'm betting Greenland works similarly, although the ice on Greenland is much more fluid and active.
                When I was in college I was this close....put thumb a 1/4 " from index finger.... to going to Antarctica to pick up samples of bacteria. Unfortunately the professor's funding was reduced and so were the # of students that could have traveled. I just missed the cut off and have been bummed about it ever since.
                Removing a single turd from the cesspool doesn't make any difference.

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