Published: February 01, 2012 | News Blog | 55 clicks
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.
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