No sun bacteria
- From: TomHendricks474@xxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 22:53:21 -0400 (EDT)
We were asking if anyone had found undersea life that
seemed completely clear of the sun's influence:
Otherworldly Bacteria Discovered Two Miles Down
Washington, D.C. â?? Researchers have discovered an isolated,
self-sustaining,
bacterial community living under extreme conditions almost two miles
deep
beneath the surface in a South African gold mine. It is the first
microbial
community demonstrated to be exclusively dependent on geologically
produced
sulfur and hydrogen and one of the few ecosystems found on Earth that
does
not depend on energy from the Sun in any way. The discovery, appearing
in
the October 20 issue of Science, raises the possibility that similar
bacteria could live beneath the surface of other worlds, such as Mars or
Jupiterâ??s moon Europa.
http://www.carnegieinstitution.org/news_releases/news_2006_1019.html
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