NASA Finds Shrimp Living 600 Feet Under Antarctic Ice

At a depth of 600 feet beneath the West Antarctic ice sheet, a small shrimp-like creature managed to brighten up an otherwise gray polar day in late November 2009. This critter is a three-inch long Lyssianasid amphipod found beneath the Ross Ice Shelf, about 12.5 miles away from open water. NASA scientists were using a borehole camera to look back up towards the ice surface when they spotted this pinkish-orange creature swimming beneath the ice. Credit: NASA

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• antarctica
• extreme environments

[AndresVizoso]

GO LIFE!

[adamcaretube]

Biedna rybka. Nie moze do domku trafic.

[Quaaludedude714]

all you shrimp belong to us :) QC

[niewasko]

talking about the countryside!

[alyosha24601]

@17thknight Say what? Can you send me a reference?

[lceus]

@Dillon1108 For clarification, this poster means the moon Europa and not the continent of Europe.

[vlad007001]

that shrimp is like

WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[PsilliPig]

I get an ice cream headache just watching him!

[17thknight]

@F0rkb0y Wrong, actually. They have found life living in the Dead Sea which was, amazingly, not carbon-based either. The only life on the entire planet that is not carbon-based.

[goofiegoofball]

@Dillon1108 I wish I can live long enough to see it when we finally do manage to be able to dig into the ice there. Life is too short

[Dillon1108]

imagine nasa does this on europa and this happens.