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2 unusual facts about Lake Vostok


Lake Vostok

Living Hydrogenophilus thermoluteolus micro-organisms have been found in Lake Vostok's deep ice core drillings; they are an extant surface-dwelling species.

Sequences from aerobic, anaerobic, psychrophilic, thermophilic, halophilic, alkaliphilic, acidophilic, desiccation-resistant, autotrophic, and heterotrophic organisms were present, including a number from multicellular eukaryotes.



see also

Kapitsa

Andrey Kapitsa - Soviet geographer and Antarctic explorer, discoverer of Lake Vostok