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This video frame grab image provided by NASA, taken in Dec. 2009, shows a Lyssianasid amphipod, which is related to a shrimp, where a NASA team lowered a video camera to get the first long look at the underbelly of an ice sheet and a curious shrimp-like creature came swimming by and then even parked itself on the cable attached to the camera. In a surprising discovery that shakes the idea of where higher life can thrive, scientists for the first time found a shrimp-like creature and a jellyfish frolicking beneath a massive Antarctic ice sheet.
Very interesting find, more evidence that life literally finds a way. Now I wonder how thick the ice is on say Europa if this means life could indeed survive in such an environment. It will also be fascinating to find out how such creatures survive and the food chain where there is no light, and is hundreds of feet beneath the ice.
WASHINGTON – In a surprising discovery about where higher life can thrive, scientists for the first time found a shrimp-like creature and a jellyfish frolicking beneath a massive Antarctic ice sheet.
Six hundred feet below the ice where no light shines, scientists had figured nothing much more than a few microbes could exist.
That's why a NASA team was surprised when they lowered a video camera to get the first long look at the underbelly of an ice sheet in Antarctica. A curious shrimp-like creature came swimming by and then parked itself on the camera's cable. Scientists also pulled up a tentacle they believe came from a foot-long jellyfish.
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What are those swirls around the ice? O_o
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On March 16 2010 10:19 Kinky wrote:
What are those swirls around the ice? O_o
metal net of some sort, to keep the drilled whole stable.
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On March 16 2010 10:19 Kinky wrote:
What are those swirls around the ice? O_o
They look like some sort of special chain-link cage to keep the ice hole from collapsing.
Edit: AngryAsian beat me, but please AngryAsian fix your grammar. It's hole not whole.
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Wow that is very cool, life in such an odd location with unfavorable conditions.
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On March 16 2010 10:22 thunk wrote:Show nested quote +On March 16 2010 10:19 Kinky wrote:
What are those swirls around the ice? O_o They look like some sort of special chain-link cage to keep the ice hole from collapsing. Edit: AngryAsian beat me, but please AngryAsian fix your grammar. It's hole not whole.
And that's not grammer, it's spelling =D.
Interesting find, though conditions under Europa's ice sheets probably are not the same as under our ice sheets. The possiblity is still pretty cool though.
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SAVE THE WEIRD SHRIMP THING'S HABITAT
STOP GLOBAL WARMING
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mmm I wonder if its tasty :o
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lol, and people say there's no life on other planets when we haven't even been to most of our own in the solar system (yes I know Europa isn't a planet).
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I wonder if that shrimp is millions of years old.
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I wonder how much per pound for these in the local supermarket
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First confirmed Zerg Larva!
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That would suck to fall down that hole.
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On March 16 2010 10:37 Khaymus wrote:
First confirmed Zerg Larva!
If zerg are that tiny then all we have to worry about are the dog sized ultralisk comming at us
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toss in a firebomb and we've got popcorn shrimp
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On March 16 2010 10:36 Nal_rAwr wrote:
'tis a broodling
this
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On March 16 2010 10:29 neobowman wrote:Show nested quote +On March 16 2010 10:22 thunk wrote:On March 16 2010 10:19 Kinky wrote:
What are those swirls around the ice? O_o They look like some sort of special chain-link cage to keep the ice hole from collapsing. Edit: AngryAsian beat me, but please AngryAsian fix your grammar. It's hole not whole. Interesting find, though conditions under Europa's ice sheets probably are not the same as under our ice sheets. The possiblity is still pretty cool though.
Who knows, but it certainly is interesting. If life can survive 600 feet I would think it would have problem adapting to 700-1000ft of ice.
The thin ice model suggests that Europa's ice shell may be only a few kilometers thick. However, most planetary scientists conclude that this model considers only those topmost layers of Europa's crust which behave elastically when affected by Jupiter's tides. One example is flexure analysis, in which the moon's crust is modeled as a plane or sphere weighted and flexed by a heavy load. Models such as this suggest the outer elastic portion of the ice crust could be as thin as 200 metres (660 ft). If the ice shell of Europa is really only a few kilometers thick, this "thin ice" model would mean that regular contact of the liquid interior with the surface could occur through open ridges, causing the formation of areas of chaotic terrain.
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I wonder how the shrimp taste. :p
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