Now you have a chance to see what scientists have found when they choose to explore hidden and frozen Lake Mercer. Exactly 26.12.2018 to the scientists (scientists have the abbreviation SALSA) managed to crawl through a huge amount of ice to this famous hidden lake. It has an area of ​​more than 160 square meters and is hidden at more than a kilometer depth.

Lake Mercer

Scientists wandered about 48 hours, but it was worth it. Their design was successful!

"The drill started its work on January 23.1.2018, 1084 and managed to reach the lake earlier than expected. The depth of the well was approximately XNUMX meters. "

Scientists have discovered a large number of bacteria and animal remains Tardigrades, otherwise called Želvušky.

Želvušky

Želvušky (Tardigrada) is a strain of animals. A body composed of five segments (head and four body) is covered by a flexible chitinous cuticle covered with long hairs, which are undulating in the growth. The hummingbirds have 8 limbs - each trunk link carries a couple of unplanned limp limbs of clawed claws, often very complicated structures. By the fourth pair of limbs, the veins hold the substrate. The muscles are striated strikingly. The mouthpiece includes two stabbing spines (styles) to eat food. Excretion occurs through malphigic tubing or metanephritis (especially marine species). Breathing and vascular system do not exist. Turtles have a ladder-like nervous system consisting of a nerve center, from which two strands of four pairs of body ganglia protrude. Turtles are oriented with small simple eyelets and tactile bristles.

Live cells of plants, algae, bacteria or other microscopic invertebrates; some species are predatory, such as bears Macrobiotus richtersi.

Under unfavorable conditions, they fall into a state called anabiasis, cryptobiosis, in which they are extremely resistant to external influences. (When an ana-biosis trips the trehalose into its organism, it is transformed into a glass-like structure under certain conditions and protects the cellular structure of the bloom.) It holds drought, var, eight-hour immersion in liquid helium, harmful radiation and anaerobic conditions. Upon transition, they may continue to live, including reproduction.

In the anabiasis, the blooms can survive radiation up to 570 000 lines / 6000 Sv (which is more than a thousand times larger than humans), with temperatures ranging from -273 to + 150 degrees Celsius. Frozen will survive for decades; the case of the 30th freeze was recorded. The wind turbine also bears a vacuum and a 6 × pressure higher than the deepest ocean floor - up to 6500 atmospheric. Some peppers have been found, among other things, in volcanic esophagus. It was found that the turtle survived on a certain moss sample more than 120 years when it was moistened with water.

As temperatures drop, turtles can reduce the body's water content from 85% to 3% to protect water, which increases in volume when it freezes. After soaking, they return to normal after half an hour. They were also tested in space, where they were exposed to UV-radiation and vacuum; upon their return to Earth they were moistened; mortality was 32%.

Díky adaptations are used by scientists to explore the universe.

Life in the middle of the ice

Although the existence of the lake (thanks to satellite images) has been known for over ten years now, scientists have decided to make a deep well. This is historically only the second more detailed research of this lake.

Lake Mercer (© salsa-antarctica.org)

The discovery of the Turtles and other crustaceans is a great surprise. Given that it has been clearly demonstrated that there was life in this lake, scientists hope they can to discover other orgasms, even alive, and to better understand how life works in such unfavorable conditions.