Robot finds marine life deep in Antarctica

What do you imagine exists after 700 meters of ice in Antarctica? More ice? Water? Any bacteria? Well, the Deep-SCINI robot was sent to explore a remote region, about 740 meters below the glacial surface, and found new crustaceans and small shoals of fish.

This kind of marine life was one of the last things the team of scientists expected to find in this territory, which is located between many layers of ice and the ocean floor, where there is very little food and no sunshine. The camera, which can withstand depths of up to 2, 000 meters, has been able to record the ecosystem impressively. Check out the video below:

How to get to such great depths?

The process of getting to this remote place is not as simple as it seems, and not just dependent on the scanning robot. A drill pipe, which uses hot water to cut, was essential to make way. The depth is so deep that it took Deep-SCINI about 45 minutes to reach the bottom.

The robot performed excellently in harsh conditions, a cause for celebration for scientists at the University of Nebraska. NASA has shown interest and funded the project so that it will eventually serve to explore Europe - one of Jupiter's four moons, not the European continent.