Living microbes in Arctic support idea of life on Mars
9th Oct 2005, 19:38 GMT
Living microbes found in what could be 1 million-year-old ice on a remote Arctic island support the theory that the frozen planet Mars could also sustain life, researchers said last week. An international team drilled ice-core samples on the remote Svalbard islands at the extinct Sverrefjell volcano. They said that is the only place on Earth with the same minerals -- called magnetite crystals -- as those found on a meteorite from Mars discovered in the Antarctic in 1996. "We have discovered a microbiological oasis in natural tubes of blue ice on Svalbard. This is an extremely tough environment in which we would not have expected to find life," said team leader Hans E.F. Amundsen of the University of Oslo.
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