This story reports on plans to explore the subglacial lakes of Antarctica. With partial funding from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Northern Illinois University's Professor Ross Powell has developed sub-ice sampling instrumentation (the ROV and GIPSIE) that will help make this research possible.
The pitch-black lakes hidden beneath Antarctica's ice sheet will finally start to release their secrets next year. At a meeting last week, scientists from Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States described their plans to explore the planet's last uncharted ecosystems by drilling into three very different examples of these subglacial lakes.
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