Imagine microbes that survive in lakes below Antarctica’s ice sheet.

The lake’s bacteria and microbes feed on carbon that seawater left behind thousands of years ago, In 2018, Paleoglaciologist Ryan Venturelli explored the area with a team of about 30 scientists to West Antarctica.

Scientists used a special hot-water drill to carve this hole through a kilometer of ice to reach the buried Lake Mercer in West Antarctica.

BILLY COLLINS

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