Antarctica’s Frozen Lake Vostok, Isolated for 20 Million Years, Breached By Russian Drills
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 radio silence, but more details are to come about what they’ve found buried under two miles of ice.
“Yesterday, our scientists stopped drilling at the depth of 3,768 meters and reached the surface of the sub-glacial lake,” the source reportedly said in a story posted Monday, Feb. 6.
» via Popular Science
+THIS IS SO EXCITING. ATLANTIS!ATLANTIS! [my roommate and I wrote an amazing script for the discovery of atlantis in vostok last semester…val kilmer and tom cruise played conflicted brothers secretly in love but married to marykate and ashley and thats just the tip of the iceberg on that one haaaa]
