Scientists around the globe are striving to find ways to survive on different planets — Mars being the priority. And we all know the amount of success they have had. Finally a breakthrough in this research could be the discovery of a bug found 2 miles deep in a Greenland ice sheet.

Matanuska Glacier Blue Ice

The H. Glaciei bacteria  belongs to the rare ‘ultramicro’ family which have the capability of surviving under extreme conditions. This particular bacteria was sleeping for a period of 120,000 years and was brought back to life by warming the ice samples that contained them.

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