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Hunt for Life in Uninhabitable Antarctica

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    British researchers look to uncover clues to the evolution of life on Earth

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The host on environment of the and talk to -- area.

Does not much life on the surface.

But fall below the -- that could be organisms that are being cut off from the rest of the world for up to a million years.

Scientists from the British Antarctic Survey -- making final preparations to drill three kilometers through the -- To a very lake.

That -- down any microbes would have to survive low temperatures and total darkness with few nutrients and immense pressures from the glassy or both.

The rough times in the distant tossed when.

The holdup was covered by -- simple hypothesis and in the situation.

-- would have had to have lived in the -- -- -- and so.

Or can apps -- -- -- another sub glacial lakes and Antarctica might understand.

Using some special -- as a as a refuge in there is in this conditions.

Living in tents for three months that temperatures of minus 25 degrees centigrade scientists will use specially designed equipment to reach the Walter.

This whole war to drill will -- -- bore holes through the ice at the rate to one -- a minute.

The scientists will then have just 24 -- before the -- whole freezes over.

Too -- Lara probe and take -- -- samples.

They'll also take a three meter coal from the sentiment we should reveal clues to the planet's climate long before the ice sheet formed.

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Makes a nine to lie beneath the Antarctic ice.

By exploring them signed his could learn much about how life -- -- But it will also encourage those hoping to find extraterrestrial.

Life on other planets covered by some of them icy crust him.

Thomas -- sky news.

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