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Nasa hopes to send a probe to the moon in the 2020s, complete with instruments to detect heat and penetrate ice in search of undersea vents.

The canyon, which rivals Arizona's Grand Canyon in size, was uncovered by airborne radar which can penetrate ice and bounce off the land beneath.

The thermal drill has the advantage of simplicity of design and operations and the ability to penetrate ice over a range of densities and hardness while maintaining sample integrity.

The system is designed to penetrate glacier ice via melting of the ice and continuously analyze melt-water in a contamination-free sonde.

Melt ponds penetrate the ice flow and represent an extending new habitat for sea ice microorganisms.

Since light can penetrate even ice and snow, he said, it might mean that algae were undergoing photosynthesis deep beneath the ice.

In addition, Antarctica's harsh testing environments showed promise for developing technologies that might one day allow a space probe to penetrate alien ice sheets to reach and sample the oceans below.

The BAS expected to reach the surface of the lake in late 2012, but on Christmas Eve of that year, the team was forced to call off the operation for the season owing to a series of equipment failures coupled with the inability of a hot-water drill to penetrate the ice properly.

The data for the map comes from three principal sources - from airborne radar that is able to penetrate the ice sheet to see the shape of the bed below; from ships surveying offshore, using sonar to map sea-bottom depths; and then there is a degree of modelling in some of the hard-to-reach places in fjords, explains BAS map-maker Dr Peter Fretwell.

You can't really penetrate the ice until you get all of the snow off the area.

These include satellite measurements for slight perturbations in ice morphology, radar which penetrated the ice to provide clues as to what lies beneath the ice, and general knowledge of Antarctica's rift system.