A new scientific project joins the race to explore lakes under Antarctic ice
By Tom Clynes
Posted 11.06.2020 at 3:36 am
Ice Capades: Scientists use explosives to generate seismic maps of Antarctica's Lake Ellsworth Neil Ross/University of Edinburgh
This winter, Russian scientists will resume drilling into what may be the most pristine environment in the world: Lake Vostok, an unfrozen body of freshwater the size of Lake Ontario cut off from the world for millennia beneath two miles of Antarctic ice. The sediment on the lakebed could hold clues to past climate changes, and the waters could be teeming with new forms of life — but the slightest mistake could spoil the lake for good.
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