Engineering team heads to Antarctica to explore hidden lake

Engineering team heads to Antarctica to explore hidden lake. Durham University is playing a key role on an extraordinary Antarctica project. A British engineering team is heading off to Antarctica for the first stage of an ambitious scientific mission to collect water and sediment samples from a lake buried beneath three kilometres of solid ice. Durham University expert Professor Mike Bentley and his team will be analyzing the samples. This extraordinary research project, at the frontiers of exploration, will yield new knowledge about the evolution of life on Earth and other planets, and will provide vital clues about the Earth's past climate. Transporting more than 70 tonnes of equipment the 'advance party' will make the 16,000 mile journey from the UK to subglacial Lake Ellsworth on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS). It is one of the most remote and hostile environments on Earth.
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