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.

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