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Antarctic Meltwater Lakes
July 13 , 2021
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- The American Space Agency, NASA’s ICESat-2 discovered Antarctic Meltwater Lakes recently.
- The Glaciologist Helen Amanda Fricker had made an astonishing discovery in 2007 and found that, a whole hidden network of interconnected lake is found beneath thick Antarctic ice-shelves.
- She had used data from NASA’s ICESat.
- ICESat-2 is the successor of ICESat.
- It was launched by NASA in 2018.
- Using the data from ICESat 2, Fricker has now discovered two new subglacial meltwater lakes under glacial ice of Antarctica.
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