What Lies Beneath the Surface of Antarctic Lake Russian drilling team close to reaching lake hidden for 14 million years #SciAmBlogs Monday Coelacanths Vostok neuronal transplants #scio12 San Diego Demonoid and more.... Team Has Reached Buried Reports Say Antarctica's Are They There Yet Drill Penetrates 14MillionYearOld It’s a small hole but Cthulu is resourceful guy Fox Flub Scientists Safe Russians drill into previously untouched below glacier Nears Breach Untouched Millions Years Seeking Lost in Antarctica

Russians "Close" to Drilling Into Antarctica's Lake Vostok Russian scientists at Lake Vostok are "very, very close" to being the first to penetrate an Antarctic subglacial lake, news reports say. Lake Vostok Drilling: Russian Scientists Reach 20 Million Year-Old Lake Russian scientists have succeeded in drilling into the 20 million-year-old Lake Vostok, an expedition over a decade in the making. Russians reportedly hit buried Antarctic lake Several Russian news outlets are reporting that Russian scientists have successfully drilled to Antarctica's Lake Vostok, a massive liquid lake cut off from daylight for 14 million years and buried beneath 2 miles (3.7 kilometers) of ice. Lake Vostok is (Almost) Breached After 20 Million Years Satellite composite showing location of Vostok within the Antarctic continent (NASA) Two and a half miles beneath the surface of Antarctica's central Eastern ice sheet is a body of water 160 miles by 30 miles across known as Lake Vostok , after the Vostok research station above it, built by the former Soviet Union in 1957 and now operated by Russia. [More] Russian Team Has Reached Buried Antarctic Lake, Reports Say Several Russian news outlets are reporting that Russian scientists have successfully drilled to Antarctica's Lake Vostok , a massive liquid lake cut off from daylight for 14 million years and buried beneath 2 miles (3.7 kilometers) of ice. [More] Lake Vostok: Russian scientists drilling into 'alien' Antarctic lake buried for 20m years The team have been out of radio contact with anxious colleagues for nearly seven days, but one Antarctic expert says they are merely busy with their mission of trying to get to ancient Lake Vostok. Russian Drill Penetrates 14-Million-Year-Old Antarctic Lake Update: Russian news agency Ria Novosti has reported that the team penetrated Lake Vostok on Feb. 5, 2012. According to the report, the researchers stopped drilling at a depth of 3,768 meters as they reached the surface of the sub-glacial lake. Russian Scientists Reach Ancient Antarctic Lake After years of drilling, Russian scientists have finally managed to reach down to reveal a unique sub-glacial lake. The scientists drilled 12,362 feet to reach the sub-glacial Antarctic lake, Vostok, which has been sealed for the past 20 million years. Explorers hope the lake could reveal new forms of life, and show how life evolved before the ice age. The discovery of the hidden lakes of ... Lake Vostok drilling complete: Earth's oldest super-clean water system reached On the first of this month it was reported that scientists were about to complete a 30 year drilling expedition to hit a 20-million-year-old lake: this week they've reached the surface. This body of water called Vostok is Antarctica's largest subglacial lake and is believed by scientists to be "the only giant super-clean water system [...] They Did It! Russians Expose Lake Vostok Secrets The Russian drilling team has successfully reached the waterline on Antarctica's Lake Vostok.
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