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January 31, 2013

Photograph By:

Reed Scherer, NSF

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Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Scientists Mike Osment and Ross Powell handle a percussion core that returned sediments from the bottom of subglacial Lake Whillans as part of the Whillans Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling (WISSARD) program. The multidisciplinary project successfully bored through a half-mile of ice with a hotwater drill to reach a subglacial lake near the Ross Ice Shelf in January 2013. The researchers found bacterial life in the water samples recovered from the lake. Additional studies will include analyzing sediments recovered from the lake bottom. See the project website at www.wissard.org for more information.

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Antarctica, Camp, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0., Creative Commons, Field Camp, Geologists, Geology, Ice, NSF, Research

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