Unfavourable atmospheric conditions make it challenging to observe Antarctica from space. Nevertheless, while visualisations have portrayed the frosty continent as seemingly endless expanses of ...

Halorubrum lacusprofundi is an extreme halophile within the archaeal phylum Euryarchaeota. The type strain ACAM 34 was isolated from Deep Lake, Antarctica. H. lacusprofundi is of phylogenetic interest ...

Work in Japan and Australia has revealed that a deep-ocean current is carrying frigid water rapidly northward from Antarctica along the edge of a giant underwater plateau. Understanding such ...

Lakes vary in size, with the largest being Vostok Subglacial Lake in the Antarctic interior that is comparable in size to Lake Ontario. WISSARD targeted a smaller lake (1.2 square miles in area ...

Scientists have been gaining insight into an ancient and concealed world beneath Antarctica's ice sheet through use of satellite observations and ice-penetrating radar. If reports are to go by, in ...

Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 60, No. 4 (2015), pp. 1139-1155 (17 pages) Lake Untersee, Antarctica, is a freshwater perennially ice covered lake bounded along its north by the Anuchin glacier. The ...