
pic from: http://www.crystalinks.com/antarcticamicrobes409a.jpg
the taylor glacier bacterial community (which you see as red outflow in the above picture) will be visited by:
ENDURANCE - an 'Environmentally Non-Disturbing Under-ice Robotic Antartic Explorer'

check aerticles:
in 'science' and in 'applied and environmental microbiology' about this endeavour.