Monday, February 6, 2012

They reached the Ice!





























From Popular Science:

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.


Source -> http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-02/russian-drills-finally-reach-antarcticas-frozen-lake-vostok

Earlier link -> http://www.dannyfinnegan.com/2011/01/russian-scientists-to-drill-into.html

More info on this accomplishment -> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/antarctica/9069588/Lake-Vostok-Russia-scientists-reach-underground-Antarctic-lake.html

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