An international team of researchers has discovered salty groundwater beneath the Dry Valleys region of the world’s coldest and driest continent. The discovery of groundwater in this area may offer a glimpse into past climactic events on Antarctica, as well as clues about the potential for life on other planets. The groundwater was found throughout the valley around Antarctica’s Blood Falls, a curious outflow where red-tinted liquid seeps out of the Taylor Glacier and into West Lake Bonney. From that finding, scientists inferred that the iron-rich Falls are the outflow of a larger groundwater system.
Scientists find large water system beneath Antarctica’s dry valleys
