1. Lake Vostok why should we drillit?
Another finding was that DNA extracted from the microbes present in the team's Lake Vostok sample indicted the presence of only a few subgroups of known bacteria coupled with low overall microbial diversity (NASA, Dec. 1999). ... Oxygen and Hydrogen isotopes reveal the temperature when the ice formed, for example, while high carbon dioxide and methane level indicate periods of global warming (NewScientist, Sept. 2003). ... Located in the Antarctic, Lake Vostok is a pristine, ancient global environment that has sparked an international effort to develop exploratory methods without ...
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