Green Blog: On Our Radar: A Subglacial Lake
Wednesday, February 8, 2012 - 12:40
in Earth & Climate
Scientists say they have drilled down through ice and reached Lake Vostok, the largest of more than 280 lakes under the thick ice that covers most of the Antarctic continent. It has been sealed from light and air for millions of years. If evidence of life is found there, it could boost hopes of finding life in similar conditions in icy water on one of the moons of Jupiter.