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Meet a SETI Institute Scientist - Dale Andersen! Andersens research takes him to such diverse environments as Chile’s Atacama Desert, the ancient permafrost of Siberia, the worlds northernmost lakes and springs in the Canadian high Arctic, and the depths of the polar oceans. Andersen’s team has learned that beneath the thick ice-cover of the lakes reside robust microbial communities, similar in many ways to life on Earth billions of years ago. “To our surprise,” he recounts, “we found microbial communities living beneath ice more than twenty feet thick. Initially, we did not think enough light would penetrate the ice cover to support photosynthetic life forms. More here: buff.ly/1hEPSSu
Posted on: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 18:36:12 +0000

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