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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

After twenty years and 2.2 miles of drilling, a Russian scientific team has reported that they have breached the ice cap above Lake Vostok some 3768 meters beneath Antarctica. Though many had theorized the existence of

Lake Vostok, Antarctica update. Posted on February 6, 2012. A cross-section illustration of Lake Vostok. As of five years ago, when this diagram was made, drillers had made a 2.2-mile (3.5-kilometer) shaft. (Illustration courtesy Nicolle

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

After over 20 years of drilling through two miles of glacial ice, Russian scientists have reportedly penetrated the surface of Antarctica's largest subglacial lake. Lake Vostok, which hasn't been touched by light in millions of