Lake Vida

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Antarctic Lake Holds Life—Under 50 Feet of Ice

Long-buried lake teeming with bacteria

(Newser) - Hopes of finding life elsewhere in our solar system have been boosted by a find in one of the least hospitable places on the planet. Researchers who drilled into Lake Vida, a salty lake buried under a 50-foot-thick sheet of ice in Antarctica, have found that its oxygen-depleted water is...

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