Unique Habitat Found Inside Earth


	Unique Habitat Found Inside Earth

woodhard

7-24-2008 7:27 AM

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7-30-2008 5:39 AM

jt3600

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				<DIV id="ri_caption">The star-shaped bacterium was isolated from mine-slime, 1.7 km below the surface.  The ruler shown for scale is in centimetres. Credit: Wanger et al.</DIV>
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studying life in the deep subsurface of our planet have discovered a unique
bacterium living 1 mile (1.7 km) below the Earth's surface. The tiny bacteria live in a
community of subsurface microbes inhabiting a South African platinum mine. </SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.livescience.com/space/080724-am-underground-microbes.html">The deep
subsurface of Earth harbors <A href="http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/070425_microbes_overview.html">many
unique microbes</A> that are only accessible through large scale drilling
projects or mining. By trekking into the ultra-deep mines of <A href="http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/060510_big_spaceball.html">South
Africa</A>, researchers are getting a rare glimpse into this unique habitat</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.livescience.com/space/080724-am-underground-microbes.html">As living
organisms, every <A href="http://www.livescience.com/space/080710-am-jarosite-mars.html">microbe
needs food</A>. </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C778586D-7D79-43BF-8645-318748D8ABC3/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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