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  • Scientists...drill into mysterious Antarctic lake... under 3,500 feet of ice..to find if life...

    12/31/2018 10:52:11 PM PST · by BenLurkin · 21 replies
    Daily Mail UK ^ | 31 December 2018 | Mark Prigg
    Mercer Subglacial Lake is a hydraulically active lake that lies more 1000m beneath the Whillans Ice Plain, a fast moving section of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. The pool of water, known as Subglacial Lake Mercer, measures nearly 62 square miles, was discovered more than a decade ago through satellite images but has never been explored. It is one of 400 lakes beneath the Antarctic ice - and experts say any life there could raise hopes of finding similar organisms deep inside Mars or on the ice-covered moons of Jupiter and Saturn. The Subglacial Antarctic Lakes Scientific Access (SALSA) team...