Exploring the South Pole

The mission to discover Antarctica can reveal extraordinary forms of life in conditions of being completely cut off from the outside world, and thus pave the way for the journey to Jupiter.

In an era where hardly any nook on the surface of the planet has never been discovered, the journey to the Antarctic can open a whole new world of research to the scientific world. According to Independent, a group of 12 British scientists is prepared to embark on the exhausting journey to Antarctica. They will sleep and live in crowded huts each month to test the strength of people in the extreme conditions of the southernmost earth. More importantly, experts will launch the mission of discovering the lost world that is frozen beneath the ice for hundreds of thousands of years.

Explore under the ice of Antarctica

The search for special life forms will lead them to the deepest point of the Antarctic lake, which currently lies under 3 kilometers of ice. By the end of the year, the expedition team began drilling through thick western Antarctic ice sheets in the hope of collecting samples of water and mud from Lake Ellsworth, one of 150 ice lakes in the icy continent. Being closely watched by NASA, the organization that wants to deploy Jupiter's space research mission, the pioneering expedition led by the British Antarctic Survey Center is one of the ambitious efforts in scientific history. learn to search for 'extremophile' bacteria (transiently extruding bacteria, due to the ability to live in the harshest conditions in the universe). Scientists believe that if life exists in Lake Ellsworth, they have been isolated for half a million years. Although no light can creep into the lake in such a long time, bacteria are more likely to survive thanks to other chemical energy sources.

Lake Ellsworth existed due to the heat from the ground melting the lower part of the thick ice, leading to the situation of concentrated liquid water in the valley of ice with the same size as Britain's Lake Windermere, 17km long and wide. 1.6 km and 67m deep. Planning a mission to invest up to £ 8 million is actually a nightmare for people involved, such as transporting 100 tons of equipment to one of the farthest corners of the earth, the land that Summer temperatures also fluctuate around - 25 degrees Celsius. Last year, the front team had to move nearly 70 tons of equipment across the 16,000km distance from England to the drilling site. This time, they have to transfer another 16 tons if they want to complete the second phase of that difficult task, and the timing of the departure is set in December 2012.

The drill is designed to spray hot water to 100 degrees C with high pressure to melt the ice. Once the drilling operation starts, the engineers cannot stop until the end of the mission because all the excavated parts can be frozen within 24 hours. Experts also did not know how much to find sterile drilling equipment to avoid pool infection. When drilling to Lake Ellsworth, the experts will turn the observation device down and begin the process of collecting specimens.

'A simple question that we are trying to answer is whether life is adaptable in such a harsh environment. Only bacteria have the opportunity to survive in such conditions , 'Independent newspaper quoted Professor John Purnell of the University of Aberdeen (UK). According to GS, finding out the evidence of such organisms can be seen if life exists even in the deepest, darkest and most isolated environment in millions of years, so they are able to survive anywhere, and this may not only happen on Earth.