Two New Lakes Found Beneath Antarctic Ice Sheet

[phantom power]

In the February 2006 issue of Geophysical Research Letters, scientists from the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, a member of The Earth Institute at Columbia University, describe for the first time the size, depth and origin of Vostok's two largest neighbors. The two ice-bound lakes are referred to as 90ºE and Sovetskaya for the longitude of one and the Russian research station coincidentally built above the other. The scientists' findings also indicate that, as suspected with Lake Vostok, an exotic ecosystem may still be thriving in the icy waters 35 million years after being sealed off from the surface.



Oh yeah, the link: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/01/060130032904.htm

[RaleighNCDUer]

1. That is so cool...

[NNadir]

2. It will be on the surface soon enough.

[blindpig]

3. Any albino penguins?

Big ones, making weird pipping noises?

[jpak]

4. LOL!!!!

HPL fan

:)

[Dead_Parrot]

5. Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li! nt.

[Dead_Parrot]

6. "90°E lake"?

I know they're probably having a busy summer, but couldn't they have thought of something a little more imaginative? :silly:

[applegrove]

7. Wow. Think of the tests they can do?