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Subglacial Microbial Life on Earth and Beyond https://asm.org/Articles/2024/February/Subglacial-Microbial-Life-on-Earth-and-Beyond
"Jill Mikucki, Ph.D. studies one such analog site: Blood Falls in the McMurdo #DryValleys of #Antarctica. There, a briny, #subglacial #groundwater #ecosystem leaks iron-containing #brine to the surface... Mikucki has been working on subglacial environments for over 2 decades but is still stunned by some of her team's discoveries... the #microbial cells grow very slowly under the ice, possibly taking a year or more to divide."