After almost 22 years of on-off careful drilling through almost 3,800 metres of Antarctic ice, Russian explorers have successfully sunken a well into subglacial Lake Vostok in eastern Antarctica. Some 40 liters of its water have already been sampled.The sample is to be examined for life forms that might have evolved far astray from those known on the surface during their hundreds of thousands of years beneath the Antarctic ice sheet. Scientists say they are looking forward to discovering wonders of the magnitude of life on Mars.Tags: Lake Vostok , World, News, Antarctic, Sci-Tech, Russia, Читать далее, Source: Voice of Russia.
