The discovery of millions of micro-microbes surviving in a
120,000-year-old ice sample taken from 3,000 meters below the
surface of the Greenland glacier will be announced by Penn State
University scientists on 26 May 2004 at the General Meeting of
the American Society for Microbiology in New Orleans, Louisiana.
The discovery is significant because it may help to define the
limits for life on Earth as well as elsewhere in the universe,
such as on cold planets like Mars.From Penn State:Small, Cold,
and Hungry: Ultra-Small Microbes from a 120,000-Year-Old
Greenland-Glacier Ice Sample The discovery of millions of micro-
microbes surviving in a 120,000-year-old ice sample taken from
3,000 meters below the surface of the Greenland glacier will be
announced by Penn State University scientists on 26 May 2004 at
the General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology in
New Orleans, Louisiana. The discovery is significant because it
may help to define the limits for life on Earth as well as
elsewhere in the unive