In an incredible discovery, polar scientists have sighted marine life on the ocean floor beneath a huge Antarctica ice shelf, an area previously believed to be uninhabited.
Planning to collect sediment samples, scientists from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) lowered a camera into a borehole in the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf on the southeastern Weddell Sea. The camera descended through 900 meters (approx. 0.5 miles) of solid ice before exiting into the depths of the Antarctic far below.
