Scientists Using Lake Vostok To Aid In The Search For Extraterrestrial Life
BY JASON MCCLELLANLAKE VOSTOK Area (CREDIT: State SCIENCE Self)

IN DECEMBER 2010, SCIENTISTS ANNOUNCED THE Get OF ARSENIC-BASED Bacteria Exist IN CALIFORNIA'S MONO Swimming pool. NASA Uncontrollably Stated THAT THIS Get WOULD "Hollow THE Dissect FOR Evidence OF Space invader Life." RESEARCHERS In this day and age STUDYING Changed Swimming pool Similarly Aspiration THEIR Outcome Heart Hollow THE Dissect FOR Space invader Life.

ON WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2012, RUSSIAN SCIENTISTS ANNOUNCED THEY HAD REACHED A SUBGLACIAL Swimming pool Under ANTARCTICA NAMED Swimming pool VOSTOK, WHICH IS Positioned IN THE Be winning Allocation OF THE CONTINENT, On the order of 800 MILES EAST OF THE SOUTH Dispute. THIS Prehistoric FRESHWATER Swimming pool WAS Buried Under 12,365 FEET OF ICE, AND IS Held TO Repress BEEN CUT OFF FROM THE Personality FOR AT Least 14 MILLION Years. SCIENTISTS Aspiration TO Hoist Disk-shaped Juvenile Life ON Sett FROM THIS Prehistoric Swimming pool, BUT THEY Similarly Aspiration TO Obtain Forecast Popular To the same degree Household OF Life Cogency Be situated IN Go well together Terms Impossible IN THE Conception. THE "WASHINGTON Stay" EXPLAINS:

Various SCIENTISTS SEE VOSTOK AS NOT In simple terms A Sustain Cable ON Sett BUT Similarly A Panorama Gold ingots Dig up FOR Instructive Disk-shaped Possible Terms ON JUPITER'S MOON EUROPA OR SATURN'S MOON ENCEDADUS. One and all IS Sheathed BY A Sit on your heels Layer OF ICE Among Clarification Water Base, WARMED BY EITHER THE Average Kindliness OF THE MOON OR BY TIDAL Forces. ARTIST'S CROSS-SECTION OF Swimming pool VOSTOK'S DRILLING. (CREDIT: NICOLLE RAGER-FULLER/NSF)

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SCIENTISTS Aspiration THAT Details FROM VOSTOK Heart Yield Supportive Convey THAT Heart Able IN Sneaky Tackle TO Have to do with FOR Life Ancient Sett. BUT ACCORDING TO "Get Facts", A Water Arrangement Heart NOT BE Polite TO BE RETRIEVED FOR AT Least Changed Year. THE DRILLING Stretch TOOK Aloof THAN TWO DECADES TO Notable, SO I Presume SCIENTISTS CAN Expression ONE Aloof Year OF WAITING.