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Scientists
have discovered two more subglacial lakes, raising renewed
speculation of the existance of living ecosystems below
the ice.
The one lake is called "90°E" because
it lies along that longitude (and is now the second biggest
subglacial lake in Antarctica), while the other is named
after the Russian station above the lake called Sovetskaya.
These lakes were known of before but his is the first
time that scientists have been able to assess their size
using satellites and ground penetrating radar equipment.
The latest analysis using ice penetrating radar equipment
as well as an analysis of the earth's gravitational fields
locally seem to indicate that the two lakes lie 4 km below
the surface.
Scientists at Vostok station have drilled to within 120M
of the surface of Lake Vostok and have reportely found
evidence of microbes trapped in the ice.
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