Scientists drill into mysterious lake buried 1000m under Antarctica

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Scientists drill into mysterious lake buried 1000m under Antarctica

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A huge lake buried 1000 metres underneath Antarctica’s ice is about to yield its secrets after scientists drilled through the ice to reach it.

After two days of drilling using a high-pressure hot water drill, the scientists broke through on Sunday – finding a lake “twice the size of Manhattan”.

The scientists will lower a robotic vehicle into the lake to sample its temperature and cleanliness and to look for microbial life.

“We don’t know what we’ll find,” said John Priscu, chief scientist for Subglacial Antarctic Lakes Scientific Access (SALSA).
“We’re just learning, it’s only the second time that this has been done.”

The Mercer Subglacial Lake was spotted in satellite imagery more than a decade ago – and is believed to be one of 400 lakes hidden beneath Antarctica.

The SALSA team wrote, “part of the drilling process involves sampling the drill water to test its cleanliness”.
The team said the water had so far been tested twice, and both showed it was “as clean as filtered water could get”.

The drill water is run through filters that catch 99.9 per cent of bacteria and particles.

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Just another pristine area of the World that us humans are bound to mess up.

[Nereus]

There is a long held theory that Antarctica was not always covered in ice.
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Antarctica Was Once Covered in Forests. We Just Found One That Fossilized.

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/201 ... dwana-spd/

A Green History
"The continent as a whole was much warmer and more humid than it currently is today," says Gulbranson, a professor at University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. The landscape would have been densely forested with a low-diversity network of resilient plants that could withstand polar extremes, like the boreal forest in present-day Siberia.
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And then there is this:

Mysterious Map Emerges at the Dawn of the Egyptian Civilization and Depicts Antarctica Without Ice – Who Made it?

https://www.ancient-origins.net/artifac ... ica-021520

Map of the world by Ottoman admiral Piri Reis, drawn in 1513. ( Public Domain )
Piri Reis sailed with his famous uncle from 1487 to 1493. During these voyages, he was introduced to the lucrative spoils of piracy. The fleet fought pirates and captured and plundered enemy ships. In 1495, Kemal Reis’ great skill in the art of battle earned him an invitation to join the Imperial Turkish Fleet. His nephew accompanied him to his new assignment. The pirates were transformed into respectable Admirals.