Author's personal copy Searching for life in extreme environments relevant to Jovian’s Europa: Lessons from subglacial ice studies

The objective was to estimate the genuine microbial content of ice samples from refrozen water (accretion ice) from the subglacial Lake Vostok (Antarctica) buried beneath the 4-km thick East Antarctic ice sheet. The samples were extracted by heavy deep ice drilling from 3659 m below the surface. Hig...

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Main Authors: Sergey A. Bulat A, Irina A. Alekhina A, Dominique Marie B, Jean Martins D, Jean Robert Petit C
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.640.6162