Isn’t it filled with frozen water now?
I think we call that ice.
Earlier the article describes the trench as 3.5km deep. This later statement suggests that is is ice all the way to the bottom.... “With conservation of mass, by combining existing radar survey and ice motion data, we know how much ice fills the canyon—which, by our calculations, is 3,500 meters below sea level, the deepest point on land. Since it’s relatively narrow, it has to be deep to allow that much ice mass to reach the coast.”
I will guarantee that any water two miles down is not in solid form.
Lake Vostok is one of hundreds of sub-glacial lakes in Antarctica, and is a 3,000 ft deep lake that lies under 13,000 ft of ice.
Isn’t it filled with frozen water now?— no silly, that water is melting and will evaporate.
duh