Unexpected Discovery Beneath Canadian Arctic May Help Us Search For Alien Life
By Robin Andrews
12 Apr 2018, 14:23
Astrobiology may be the study of life off-world, but plenty of its discoveries take place here, on Earth. Take the latest revelation published in Science Advances, for example: two sizeable, hypersaline lakes have been found beneath a 500-meter (1,640-foot) floor of ice in the Canadian Arctic.
That doesn’t just make them the first subglacial lakes in the area – adding to the hundreds recently found worldwide – but the first hypersaline subglacial lakes known to science on Planet Earth. It also, as the team suggest, points us toward the stars.
http://www.iflscience.com/environment/unexpected-discovery-two-hypersaline-lakes-beneath-canadian-arctic-help-search-alien-life/
