How microbial life exists in the most extreme environments on this planet — and potentially others — is there deep under the [Antarctic] ice.
To uncover their secrets, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Antarctic drilling team (ANDRILL) will spend the next few weeks drilling into Lake Mercer, a subglacial lake twice the size of the island of Manhattan under the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, about 500 miles from the South Pole.
- Read "UNL scientists, drillers look for life under Antarctic ice sheet" at journalstar.com
