You’ll never guess what’s hiding beneath Greenland’s ice sheet

• Scientists have discovered a massive lake bed hiding deep beneath Greenland's thick sheet of ice.
• The lake would have covered 2,700 square miles, though it's hard to tell how old the lake truly is.
• Sediment analysis would reveal the age of the lake, but it would take a lot of work to make that happen.

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Greenland, despite its name, isn't all that green. It's actually covered in ice — this was always the mind-blowing thing that teachers liked to reveal when they told us that Greenland and Iceland are basically the opposite of what their names would suggest — and some of that ice is incredibly thick. Understand what might be hidden under that ice has been challenging for scientists, but new research suggests that Greenland is hiding something big.

Using data from NASA's Operation IceBridge, researchers have been able to determine that there's a colossal lake bed sitting far beneath Greenland's thick layer of ice. The research was published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters.

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