Antarctic exploration delving deep below an Antarctic glacier have discovered bacteria that has existed or believed to have existed, for millions of years in an ecosystem dominated by cold, salty water. Water in these deep pools is thought to be able to retain its liquidity because it is three or four times saltier than the ocean salinity.

Professor John Priscu from Montana State University has together with a colleague, published a report in the Science journal.

The information has excited astronomers who can now contemplate that perhaps the ice crusts of Mars and Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons, shelter living forms below their freezing upper crusts.

 Extra-terrestrial life draws closer to our general acceptance as a universal principle

There is life without form but no form that is sustained without life.

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