Obscure bacteria found in Antarctic lake

He said Russian scientists had found a new form of microbial life in water samples taken from the giant freshwater lake hidden beneath kilometers of ice in the Antarctic, and Monday.Sergei Polat Lukin Valerie said in a statement that unidentified `` seed'': Moscow bacteria has nothing to do with any of the types of bacteria present. Recognized, however, that the extensive research of the microbe that was sealed under the ice for millions of years would be necessary to demonstrate and identify samples find characteristics.New bacteria from the waters of Lake Vostok retrieved from expected earlier this year to be delivered to St. Petersburg May on board the team ship . The Russian Russian reached the surface of the lake under the ice in February 2012 after more than two decades of drilling, a significant achievement hailed by scientists around the world.They touched lake water Sunday in the depth of 12366 feet (3769 meters), about 800 miles (1 0.300 miles) east of the South Pole in the middle part of continent.Scientists hope lake may allow a glimpse of life forms microbial that existed before the ice age and can have survived in the dark depths of the lake, although high pressures and conditions fixed _ Cold similar to those It is also believed that found under the icy crust on the surface of Mars, Jupiter moon Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus.At 250 kilometers (160 miles) kilometers and 50 (30 miles) wide, and Lake Vostok similar in size to Lake Ontario. It is kept from freezing into a solid block of kilometers thick crust of ice across that acts like a lid, taking the heat generated from geothermal energy underneath.Some expressed concern that more than 60 thousand tons of lubricants and antifreeze used in Drilling contamination of the lake, but researchers Russians insisted that its environmentally safe technology. They said water from the lake so rushed borehole once in drilling touched the surface and froze, and seal securely lubricants waters.Bulat lake pristine said Lukin research team has careful analysis of the samples contained to distinguish bacteria in lubricants than what they had hoped could be the impact of the forms new life. Spotted only preliminary studies of bacteria associated with lubricants, but scientists have found eventually said one of the bacteria that do not fall within any of the categories known.The researchers said that the small size of the initial sample and severe pollution make it difficult to conduct more extensive research. They expressed hope that the new samples of clean water frozen up to St. Petersburg this spring will make it possible to find a `` confirmation, perhaps, discover new forms were not known previously from germs U.S. team that touched in recent life.A surface of a lake Whillans, and the shallowness of Western subglacial body of water in the Antarctic, also found microbes. Scientists so far is to determine what forms of bacteria found.