Report Offers Guidance on How to Safely Explore Vast Aquatic Systems Buried Under Antarctic Ice

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An artists representation of the aquatic system scientsist believe is buried beneath the Antarctic ice sheet. Credit: Zina Deretsky NSF
An artist's representation of the aquatic system scientsist believe is buried beneath the Antarctic ice sheet. Credit: Zina Deretsky / NSF

The National Science Foundation (NSF) should work within the environmental framework of the international Antarctic Treaty system to develop a global scientific consensus on minimally disruptive ways to investigate one of the "last unexplored places on Earth"--a unique system of lakes, and the aquatic systems that may connect them, buried thousands of meters under the Antarctic ice sheet--according to a newly released report.


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