Lake Vostok: “Admit it, it sounds just like a thousand horror-movie setups.”

That was the Professor’s not entirely inaccurate comment this time last year, when a Russian team came up just short in their attempt to reach Lake Vostok – the largest sub-glacial freshwater lake on Earth. The project to drill down to the lake, which covers 16 square kilometres and has been sealed under approximately 3,750m of ice in the Antarctic for around 15 million years, began over 20 years ago. The Russian team returned to the drill site during the recent Antartic summer and, as the …

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