Unique salt lakes discovered under Nunavut glacier a ‘jewel’ for researchers
Ivan Semeniuk Science reporter
Published April 11, 2018
Updated 16 hours ago
Call them the lakes that shouldn’t be.
Deep beneath a massive glacier in the Canadian Arctic, scientists have discovered a pair of hidden reservoirs that may offer a unique opportunity for testing the possibility that life exists elsewhere in our solar system.
The lakes, which were discovered with the help of ice-penetrating radar, measure eight and five kilometres long and occupy parallel depressions on Nunavut’s Devon Island. They lie beneath the centre of a sprawling, permanent ice cap that covers the eastern end of the island. Scientists estimate the ice cap has kept the lakes sealed off from their surrounding environment for up to 120,000 years.
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