An international team of polar researchers has found several types of microbiota living in the water below the frozen surface of Antarctica's Lake Enigma. In their study, published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment, group members ventured to the lake. Using ground-penetrating radar, they found that there was water deep below its frozen surface, and drilled into the lake to obtain water samples for testing.

Antartide, nel lago Enigma microbi isolati da milioni di anni - Terra e Poli

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Antarctica, microbes isolated for millions of years in Lake Enigma - Earth and Poles

Drilling inside Antarctica's Lake Enigma found water under permanent ice, with life forms that may have been isolated for as much as 12 million years

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Salman Schocken

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Leonid Nevzlin

Tel Aviv-Yafo

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Strange bacteria isolated for millions of years found under ice of Antarctic lake

Lake Enigma, a permanently frozen lake in the northern foothills of Victoria Land, Antarctica, believed to be solid ice from surface to bottom. But according to a new study, the icy surface of Lake Enigma rests on liquid water—and that water is full of bizarre microbial life. The study was published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment.

Az Enigma-tó, egy állandóan fagyott tó az antarktiszi Viktória-föld északi  előhegységénél, melyről úgy vélték, hogy a felszíntől a fenekéig szilárd jég. De egy új tanulmány szerint az Enigma-tó jeges felszíne folyékony vízen nyugszik – és ez a víz teli van bizarr mikrobás élettel. A tanulmányt a Communications Earth & Environment magazinban publikálták.

Az Enigma-tó mégsem teljesen fagyott jégből áll

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Budapest

Hungary

Lake Enigma is not completely frozen ice

Hidden under an 11-meter-thick layer of perennial ice (ANSA)

Nascosti sotto uno strato di ghiaccio perenne spesso 11 metri (ANSA)

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Unique microbial communities discovered beneath frozen surface of Antarctica's Lake Enigma

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Antarctica's Lake Enigma Is Hiding A Weird And Unique Ecosystem

2024-12-04 15:20:00 phys.org An international team of polar researchers has found several types of microbiota living in the water below the frozen surface of Antarctica’s Lake Enigma. In their study, published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment, group members ventured to the lake. Using ground-penetrating radar, they found that there was water deep below its frozen… Source

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Unique microbial communities discovered beneath frozen surface of Antarctica’s Lake Enigma

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Lake Enigma, a permanently ice-covered lake in the Australian area of Antarctica, is an enigma no more, as international researchers say it contains an extensive and diverse ecosystem. They found ultra-small bacteria that dominate some parts of the permanently frozen lake, and say this colony of tiny critters reveals new and complex Antarctic lake food webs.

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Lake Enigma, in the Aussie area of Antarctica, is an enigma no more

Northern Foothills of Victoria Land, Antarctica contains numerous hydrological formations, ranging from small surface streams and ponds fed by glacial or snow meltwater to permafrost lakes containing briny pockets. Here we describe the discovery of a massive body of unfrozen stratified oligotrophic water in Lake Enigma, a permanently ice-covered lake previously thought to be frozen […] The post Ice-covered Lake Enigma In Antarctica Supports Uniq…

Unique microbial communities discovered beneath frozen surface of Antarctica's Lake Enigma

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