LAKE Vostok, the giant lake sealed under thousands of metres of Antarctic ice, has been found to have two distinct basins – raising the exciting possibility that the deep, frigid waters harbour two separate ecosystems.
The largest known sub-glacial body of water, Lake Vostok has been locked under ice for at least a million years. Unique life forms in the water could provide clues to possible life in similar environments elsewhere in the solar system, such as inside Jupiter’s icy moon Europa.
Now Michael Studinger, a geophysicist at Columbia University in New York, and his team say that a sharp ridge…
