Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama
Scientists have detected hidden lakes trapped underneath the vast ice of Antarctica -400 of them so far! Back in 2013, we reported on the first one that had been reached by drilling. The samples brought up contained previously-unknown bacteria. Now a second sub-glacial lake, called Lake Mercer, has been exposed by a drilling project.
The team hauled in a million pounds of drilling equipment to the site, 650 miles from McMurdo Station, early last month.According to the latest SALSA blog post, the team began drilling its main borehole on the evening of December 23. (A secondary…
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