Temperature profile for glacial ice at the South Pole: Implications for life in a nearby subglacial lake

• Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
• Main Authors: Price, P. Buford, Nagornov, Oleg V., Bay, Ryan, Chirkin, Dmitry, He, Yudong, Miocinovic, Predrag, Richards, Austin, Woschnagg, Kurt, Koci, Bruce, Zagorodnov, Victor
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: The National Academy of Sciences 2002
• Subjects: Physical Sciences; Antarctic; Frozen Lake; Lake Vostok; South Pole; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Ice; Ice cap; permafrost; South pole
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC122982; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12060731; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.082238999

Airborne radar has detected ≈100 lakes under the Antarctic ice cap, the largest of which is Lake Vostok. International planning is underway to search in Lake Vostok for microbial life that may have evolved in isolation from surface life for millions of years. It is thought, however, that the lakes m...