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Published online 17 December 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news021216-3
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Buried lake could test life's limits
Scientists find some of Earth's coldest, saltiest water beneath metres of Antarctic ice.
As salty as the Dead Sea and ten degrees below zero, Lake Vida, is one of the strangest, most inhospitable environments on Earth. Found under nineteen metres of ice in the parched and barren wastes of Antarctica, the polar lake might help researchers weigh the odds of life having existed on other worlds.
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