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For the first time, scientists have found a huge groundwater system below ice in Antarctica
For the first time, scientists have found a huge groundwater system below ice in Antarctica.
The reservoir of groundwater - water held underground in the soil or in pores and crevices in rock - lies beneath the Whillans Ice Stream in West Antarctica, clients1.google.st they say.
Such groundwater systems are likely common in Antarctica and affect how the continent reacts to - although researchers don't know exactly how.
The discovery confirms what researchers had already suspected but had been unable to verify until now, thanks to electromagnetic techniques.
(image: ) Lead author Dr Chloe Gustafson and mountaineer Meghan Seifert install geophysical instruments to measure groundwater below West Antarctica's Whillans Ice Stream
(image: ) Whillans Ice Stream (also known as Ice Stream B) is one of the many ice streams in Antarctica
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