The Russian scientists drilling into ancient buried Antarctic Lake Vostok have reached their destination, the Russian news agency Ria Novosti reported today. The team is apparently alive and well despite a week of suspicious
Russians expose Lake Vostok secrets. Posted Feb 6th, 2012 at 2:01 PM and seen. times. Tweet. Media_httpuploadwikim_zrbjj. The unofficial comment came this morning in my inbox from the American office of the Russian Embassy: They did
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
The main inspiration for the project – the Russian scientist who posited the lake's existence – died just six months before the moment of contact with the lake's surface. Now, the whole world is looking to Lake Vostok for crucial
Vostok, as this relic lake is known, is over a mile deep and half the size of Wales. Kept liquid by geothermal heat trapped beneath the ice, Vostok is considered so alien that you'll often hear folks speak of it as they would the lake conditions on
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