Feisty Little Shrimp in the Antarctic

[Silent] JPL researcher Alberto Behar captured this video of a pinkish-orange creature, known as a Lyssianasid amphipod, swimming beneath the ice of the West Antarctic ice sheet during a joint NASA-National Science Foundation expedition November 2009. The unexpected discovery occurred after Behar and fellow researchers submerged the camera, which Behar designed, down an 8-inch-diameter hole in the ice sheet to obtain what are believed to be the first images of the underbelly of an ice shelf. The camera view is from below looking up.
At a depth of 600 feet beneath the West Antarctic ice sheet, the small shrimp-like creature managed to brighten up an otherwise gray polar day. This 3-inch critter was found beneath the Ross Ice Shelf, about 12.5 miles away from open water.
Credit: NASA

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• NASA
• Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• Antarctica
• ice shelf
• shrimp
• Lyssianasid amphipod
• West Antarctic ice sheet
• expedition
• discovery
• shrimp-like creature
• Alberto Behar
• bore
• Ross Ice Shelf

[BeeGrau]

lol he'll go back to his mates and say "wow, i saw this weird thing in the sky today..." and they'll all go "shut up you loony"...

[Jasontheperson]

That shrimp is like "HEY GUYS WHAT'S UP?"

[A11ex]

That's not a shrimp. That's an isopod.

[TheDistantMixer]

*shrimps all like "Help meh!"

[9578504]

more different types of shrimps to eat

[Pixelrelated]

The interesting thing is that when they pulled the rope up later, they found a tentacle clinging to the rope.

[slavikua78]

че это за срань? ниче непонятно !

[innerJAG]

Are shrimp normally that colorful in the antarctic?

[1moe7]

Yeah but from what I remember, IO one of Jupiter's moons. Not Saturns!

[landcruiserlarry]

you may be right, i could'nt remember, Saturn has so many moons!!

[Sigfried90]

Damned..!! thats So amazing maybe there are more little shrimps ..xD!

[1moe7]

At 1:48 he's like "Okay bye!"