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Scientists are travelling to Antarctica to investigate a mysterious marine ecosystem
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 75937790:MV8zNzYyODY3XzY3NDE3OTg3X0ZERTg5RTdG] We may as well document it. We might find a cure in some algae that can cure ignorance.we sure as hell need it. [/quote]
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Scientists are travelling to Antarctica to investigate a mysterious marine ecosystem hidden under an iceberg four times the size of London.
The team, led by British Antarctic Survey (BAS), leave the Falklands on 21 February to collect samples from a newly exposed seabed beneath an iceberg dubbed A68, which calved off from the Larsen C Ice Shelf in July.
It is considered an urgent mission, with the 5,818 sq km ecosystem susceptible to change as it becomes exposed to sunlight for the first time in thousands of years.
It is thought to be up to 120,000 years old.
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