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Salty Subglacial Lakes Could Host Cousins to Otherwordly Life

Figure by Anja Rutishauser.

An international team of researchers has reported what may be the first two isolated, salty, subglacial lakes found on Earth.

The water pockets — one roughly the area of Arizona’s Saguaro Lake, the other about four-fifths the size of the state’s Apache Lake — differ from 400 other subglacial pools in that they are 4-5 times as salty as Earth’s oceans.

Read/listen to my full story at KJZZ’s Arizona Science Desk:
Finding An Alien World Half A Mile Beneath Canadian Ice