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News Release 13-011
In a Scientific and Engineering Breakthrough, NSF-funded Team Samples Antarctic Lake Beneath the Ice Sheet
Samples may contain microbes from an ecosystem isolated for thousands of years, with implications for the search for life elsewhere in extreme environments
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An image from the Whillans Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling project (WISSARD) borehole camera is shown.
Credit: The Whillans Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling Project
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Frank Rack, of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, at the WISSARD test-driliing site in December 2012.
Credit: Peter West, NSF
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An artist's representation of the aquatic system scientists believe is buried beneath the Antarctic ice sheet.
Credit: Zina Deretsky, NSF
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