They did this in Antarctica (Score 1)

This is interesting because our lecturer at McGill just finished telling us about how they did this in Antarctica 10 years ago. The success of that mission in proving that life exists under 3 metre ice sheets (on lakes) in the McMurdo Dry Valleys is one of the reasons why this mission to Europa is planned. Great pictures of my lecturer (Andersen) in Antarctica are here. The video footage is again even more impressive - whole unadulterated sea beds of stromatolites and other cyanobacteria like nowhere else on earth.