This breakthrough -- and that's the right term to use for this effort -- is actually pretty exciting, even while we're sending satellite probes to the farthest body in the Solar System ever visited and landing a robot explorer on the far side of the Moon.
Scientists Just Melted a Hole Through 3,500 Feet of Ice to Reach a Mysterious Antarctic Lake
"On Friday, the Subglacial Antarctic Lakes Scientific Access (SALSA) team announced they’d reached Lake Mercer after melting their way through an enormous frozen river with a high-pressure, hot-water drill. The multi-year effort to tap into the subglacial lake—one of approximately 400 scientists have detected across Antarctica—offers a rare opportunity to study the biology and chemistry of the most isolated ecosystems on Earth."
So where's Lake Mercer located, I am wondering (as I am sure you are as well)?
At least, what point on the Antarctic continent is it located under? So let's go find a map:
On the map below, SLM is subglacial Lake Mercer (right under the text reading "Mercer Ice Stream").
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