Sentences with phrase «within subglacial»
The microbial life of subglacial ecosystems exists in total darkness and relies on relict carbon within subglacial sediments to persist.
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In February — just three months after Britney Schmidt proposed the possibility of subglacial lakes within Europa's thick ice crust — Russian scientists announced that they had drilled through the ice to reach Vostok.
Researchers with the British Antarctic Survey have been planning for 16 years to drill a borehole into the ice atop this subglacial lake, a hole that will freeze back over within 24 hours.
Subglacial Lake Mercer lies below the confluence of the Whillans and Mercer ice streams, making its hydrology distinct within the region.
The researchers arranged for their equipment — cumulatively weighing about 300,000 pounds — to travel within 12 shipping containers across 800 miles of ice sheet to reach the subglacial Lake Whillans in southwest Antarctica.