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For the first time, scientists have found a huge groundwater system below ice in Antarctica. <br>The reservoir of groundwater - water held underground in the soil or in pores and  [https://www.openlearning.com/u/hamannalford-rd27j0/blog/01 kooora4live app] crevices in rock - lies beneath the Whillans Ice Stream in West Antarctica, they say. <br>Such groundwater systems are likely common in Antarctica and affect how the continent reacts to  - although researchers don't know exactly how. <br>The discovery confirms what researchers had already suspected but had been unable to verify until now, thanks to electromagnetic techniques. <br>         Lead author Dr Chloe Gustafson and mountaineer Meghan Seifert install geophysical instruments to measure groundwater below West Antarctica's Whillans Ice Stream<br>         Whillans Ice Stream (also known as Ice Stream B) is one of the many ice streams in Antarctica<br><div class="art-ins mol-factbox floatRHS sciencetech" data-version="2" id="mol-8a247bd0-cc8b-11ec-a9a1-07a134a0435c" website find groundwater in sediments deep under Antarctic ice