NASA finds shrimp they weren’t expecting.
There’s a lot more going on beneath those huge sheets of Antarctic ice than you might think. NASA researchers drilled an eight-inch hole and stuck a video camera 600 feet down, hoping to observe the underbelly of the thick ice sheet.
To their amazement, a curious critter swam into view and clung to the video camera’s cable. The three-inch crustacean in their video is a Lyssianasid amphipod, a relative of a shrimp.
I didn’t know NASA went in that direction. I just thought they always headed away from the earth’s surface, not under it.
NASA has a huge project under way to search for “extremeophiles”, (life that inhabits extremely inhostile environments) here on earth, to help point them in the direction of possible life on other worlds. Nothing humorous there I know…..but enough material for Scott to work with I think!
So you think Scott will come up with something along the lines of a NASA baiter .. or some ice hole?
Julie seems to think this is prawnography.
the organization typically associated with underwater research is NOAA. oooo NOAA is gonna be pissed to find NASA digging down on their area.
See Julie, it’s not too easy is it? 🙂
“Extremeophiles” would have been a good name for Bad Bits.