Sentences with phrase «subglacial lake systems»
The radar waves bounced off the rock beneath the ice; returning echoes yielded this contour map of peaks and valleys as well as hundreds of miles of interconnected subglacial lake systems.
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Though all subglacial lakes are good analogues for life beyond Earth, the hypersaline nature of the Devon lakes makes them particularly tantalizing analogues for ice - covered moons in our solar system.
«Although the Devon hypersaline subglacial lakes are very unique discoveries, we may find networks of brine - rich subglacial water systems elsewhere in the Canadian Arctic.»
If they can obtain the satellite, Polar Broadband Systems hopes to have it in place by the next Antarctic summer — in time for Russian scientists» return to Lake Vostok to collect the first sample of water from an Antarctic subglacial lLake Vostok to collect the first sample of water from an Antarctic subglacial lakelake.
SALSA will gather data from permanent GPS stations to better understand subglacial water flow's influence on the larger ice sheet system and improve subglacial lake modeling through comparing our model's estimates against geochemical data.
The rift system was also found to contain the largest subglacial lakes in Antarctica.»