When These Researchers Dug A Hole In Antarctica, They Didn’t Expect to Discover This Ancient Lifeform

SALSA Expedition

This lake has been covered for more than a millennia, and scientists hoped to find something during the Subglacial Antarctic Lakes Scientific Access (SALSA) expedition. This was an expedition that would be groundbreaking.

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The expedition was made up of 50 scientists, drillers, and support staff. The main goal of this expedition was to determine how susceptible the ice sheet would be to global warming. And so they began their drill on the 26th of December.