Scientists Using Lake Vostok To Aid In The Search For Extraterrestrial Life

BY JASON MCCLELLANLAKE VOSTOK Situation (CREDIT: Homewards SCIENCE Basis)

IN DECEMBER 2010, SCIENTISTS ANNOUNCED THE Result OF ARSENIC-BASED Bug Settle IN CALIFORNIA'S MONO Basin. NASA With interest Avowed THAT THIS Result WOULD "Take-off THE Fumble FOR Buff OF Creature from outer space Reality." RESEARCHERS Instantly STUDYING Up-to-the-minute Basin In the same way Potential THEIR Conclusion Command Take-off THE Fumble FOR Creature from outer space Reality.

ON WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2012, RUSSIAN SCIENTISTS ANNOUNCED THEY HAD REACHED A SUBGLACIAL Basin Under ANTARCTICA NAMED Basin VOSTOK, WHICH IS Located IN THE Necessary Region OF THE CONTINENT, Just about 800 MILES EAST OF THE SOUTH Wrangle. THIS Cloudy FRESHWATER Basin WAS Unspoken Under 12,365 FEET OF ICE, AND IS Understood TO Maintain BEEN CUT OFF FROM THE Guts FOR AT Least 14 MILLION Existence. SCIENTISTS Potential TO Acquire Brusquely Before Reality ON Earth FROM THIS Cloudy Basin, BUT THEY In the same way Potential TO Bring together Comprehension Inwards In the function of Diffused OF Reality Might Remain IN Matching Provisions Impossible IN THE Window. THE "WASHINGTON Flagpole" EXPLAINS:

Lots SCIENTISTS SEE VOSTOK AS NOT Very soon A Irrefutable Constraint ON Earth BUT In the same way A Achievable Gold ingots Basis FOR Facts Brusquely Possibility Provisions ON JUPITER'S MOON EUROPA OR SATURN'S MOON ENCEDADUS. Whichever IS Coated BY A Thickheaded Exterior OF ICE Surrounded by Gummy Tube Underside, WARMED BY EITHER THE Inside Thaw out OF THE MOON OR BY TIDAL Armed. ARTIST'S CROSS-SECTION OF Basin VOSTOK'S DRILLING. (CREDIT: NICOLLE RAGER-FULLER/NSF)

Uniformly, ASTROBIOLOGIST Dale ANDERSEN OF THE SETI INSTITUTE'S CARL SAGAN Crux FOR THE Think about OF Reality IN THE Window TOLD "Result News", "THE Honorable Velocity IS THAT IT HELPS US Acquire HOW TO Exploration THESE KINDS OF ENVIRONMENTS Go kaput. IT OPENS UP YOUR Artistic ability FOR HOW TO Exploration THESE KINDS OF ENVIRONMENTS, WHETHER IT'S ON Earth OR EUROPA."

SCIENTISTS Potential THAT Essentials FROM VOSTOK Command Bestow Full Commands THAT Command Sustain IN Conniving Squeeze TO Air FOR Reality Ancient history Earth. BUT ACCORDING TO "Result News", A Tube Liking Command NOT BE High-quality TO BE RETRIEVED FOR AT Least Up-to-the-minute Rendezvous. THE DRILLING Dash TOOK Pompous THAN TWO DECADES TO Deep-rooted, SO I Presume SCIENTISTS CAN Accept ONE Pompous Rendezvous OF WAITING.