There's something hiding under the Antarctic Ice ⬇️
Deep, dark and mysterious, Once a large surface lake in East Antarctica, Lake Vostok is now buried under about 2.5 miles of ice near Russia's Vostok research station. Covered with ice for millennia, cut off from light and contact with the atmosphere, the lake is one of the most extreme environments on Earth, Live Science previously reported.
"Lake Vostok is one of the easiest subglacial lakes to detect due to its size," Christner told Live Science."[Yet] I believe most of its secrets remain." Life in the lakeIn the 1990s, Christner was part of an international team that discovered microbes in frozen lake water collected above Lake Vostok's liquid surface, called accretion ice. The top half-inch of the lake surface freezes onto the flowing ice sheet above the lake.
The researchers took samples from two areas of the lake: the southern main basin and near an embayment on the southwestern end of the lake. In addition to fungi and two species of archaea, which are single-celled organisms that often live in extreme environments, the researchers identified thousands of bacterial species, including some that are commonly found in the digestive systems of fish, crustaceans and annelid worms, according to the press release.
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