A huge ancient lake has been found under the Antarctic ice sheet. The reservoir was discovered using an aircraft with a ground penetrating radar and a set of magnetometers and gravimeters. The lake was named Snow Eagle.
According to scientists, it “keeps records of the entire history of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, its inception over 34 million years ago, and its growth and evolution through ice cycles since then”.
The length of the found reservoir is about 50 kilometers, the width is 15 kilometers, and the depth is 200 meters. It is noted that the sediments at the bottom of the lake are 300 meters deep, and may include river sediments older than the ice sheet itself, informs mir24.