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Wednesday, February 01, 2012

Scientists Close To Entering Vostok, Antarctica’s Biggest Subglacial Lake


After drilling for two decades through more than two miles of antarctic ice, Russian scientists are on the verge of entering a vast, dark lake that hasn’t been touched by light for more than 20 million years.
Scientists are enormously excited about what life-forms might be found there but are equally worried about contaminating the lake with drilling fluids and bacteria, and the potentially explosive “de-gassing” of a body of water that has especially high concentrations of oxygen and nitrogen.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

didnt they have a gas release from this just awhile ago and saw all kinds of new species