A team of Japanese and German scientists recently found out how truly amazing and full of secrets our Earth is. Their team was formed to study the feasibility of turning Carbon Dioxide to liquid form and then injecting it deep beneath the seabed to hamper global warming. But to their surprise, a similar natural formation is found in the East China Sea off the coast of Taiwan.

According to team leader, Fumio Inagaki of the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology in Yokosukam, the presence of the underground CO2 lake was highly unexpected because it lies only 4,600 feet below sea level. It has to be at a depth of 10,000 feet for the liquid CO2 become heavier than water and not rise to the surface.

The only explanation that the team could muster is that CO2, in this case, is coming from a deep magma chamber and becomes a type of ice as it encounters cold water on top of the chamber.

In what started as a global warming solution, this recent development expanded the experiment even up to determining a possible life presence in planet Mars. The lake, which quiet resembles the surface of the Red planet, is found to have microbes living in it.