In fact, this past summer, scientists collected samples of water and ice specifically to see if things called extremophiles, tiny lifeforms that are evolved to live in completely hostile conditions, might be living under the ice, kind of like what they hope to find on the polar icecaps of Mars someday.
这个夏天，科学家收集了 这些水和冰的样本。 特别是想看看叫做极端微生物的 进化到在极端环境中生存的微小生命 是否能在冰下生存。 就像他们期望某天在火星冰帽上发现的生物