A lake hidden thousands of metres below Antarctic ice may sustain a community of bacteria. Might a similarly frigid ecosystem exist on one of Jupiter's moons, asks Philip Ball?
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Ball, P. The ice microbes cometh. Nature (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/news000217-1
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/news000217-1
