Bloomberg Sounds like a Bond plot: The Russians (okay, Russian scientists) have drilled into a never-before-touched lake buried under 2.2 miles of ice in Antarctica. The vast, dark Lake Vostok hasn't seen light in an estimated 20 million years,
Until the mid-1990s, nobody knew there was a lake two miles under Antarctica's icy Vostok Station. Now Lake Vostok is understood to hold more water than almost any other lake in the world. A decades-long Russian effort to drill through the ice and
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2 (UPI) — Russian researchers say their drilling project is close to breaching a prehistoric lake trapped deep beneath Antarctica for the last 14 million years. The 20-year-project is about to reach Lake Vostok, the largest in a sub-glacial web of
It has broken a seven day radio blackout of Russia's Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute drilling ops into Lake Vostok where a vast prehistoric body of water is being probed. Official briefings have tended to focus on the subterranean lake having
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