Finding life beneath layers of ice

Dr. Mahlon Kennicutt, professor of chemical oceanography at Texas A&M, was quoted extensively in an EarthSky podcast. The podcast reported on a Russian team of scientists who drilled through 12,000 feet of ice to reach the surface of Lake Vostok in Antarctica. Kennicutt, president of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research, commented on the implications of this breakthrough. 

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