Antarctica Researchers Seek Life in Lake 2 Miles Under Ice
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British researchers are preparing to drill through 3 kilometers (2 miles) of Antarctic ice to search for life in samples from a lake that’s been isolated from the outside world for hundreds of thousands of years.
A year after delivering 70 tons of equipment to the site of Lake Ellsworth, a body of fresh water between the West Antarctic ice sheet and the bedrock under the southern continent, scientists next month will deliver another 26 tons of gear, the British Antarctic Survey said today in an e-mailed statement. In December they plan to drill for 100 hours to reach the lake.