Scientists start explorations in the two-mile-thick ice sheetabove Lake Ellsworth in Antarctica. Press Handout
From The Independent:
British scientists search for life forms hidden more than 400,000 years ago beneath Antarctic ice.
British scientists are about to mount one of the boldest-ever missions, to search for life forms that have survived for possibly millions of years in a frozen "lost world" beneath an ancient ice sheet.
This week, a team of Antarctic scientists has been given the go-ahead to drill through a two-mile-thick sheet of ice that has sealed a sub-glacial lake from the rest of the biosphere for at least as long as Homo sapiens has walked the Earth.
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