The lake’s bacteria and microbes feed on carbon that seawater left behind thousands of years ago, In 2018, Paleoglaciologist Ryan Venturelli explored the area with a team of about 30 scientists to West Antarctica.
Scientists used a special hot-water drill to carve this hole through a kilometer of ice to reach the buried Lake Mercer in West Antarctica.
BILLY COLLINS
Learn more by visiting https://www.sciencenews.org/article/lake-antarctica-ice-microbes-carbon
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