Russia 'drills into' Antarctic subglacial lake

[zenmaster]

A Russian team has succeeded in drilling through four kilometres (2.5 miles) of ice to the surface of a mythical subglacial Antarctic lake which could hold as yet unknown life forms, reports said Monday.

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-02-russ...-lake.html

[zenmaster]

Not sub-glacial lake (Vostok is 3,740 meters further down), but interesting findings:

"It is permanently covered by a massive cap of ice up to 27 metres thick, is six times saltier than normal sea water, and at −13 °C is one of the coldest aquatic environments on Earth — yet Lake Vida in Antarctica teems with life."

http://www.nature.com/news/life-abounds-...ce-1.11884

[Plenum]

is there another short query we may answer at this time?

[turtledude23]

If the earth is hollow then an entrance would probably be somewhere in the arctic or antarctic.

[zenmaster]

Russian drilling operations at Lake Vostok, Antarctica, have succeeded in collecting a long-sought core sample of water frozen into the borehole from the glacier-covered, 20 million-year-old lake they cracked into last year.

“The first core of transparent lake ice, two meters long, was obtained on Jan. 10, at a depth of 3,406 meters (11,174.5 feet). Inside it was a vertical channel filled with white bubble-rich ice,” stated the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, part of the Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring, reported Ria Novosti.

http://news.discovery.com/earth/russians...130111.htm

[zenmaster]

Russia Finds 'New Bacteria' in Antarctic Lake
http://news.discovery.com/earth/russia-f...130307.htm

Russian scientists believe they have found a wholly new type of bacteria in the subglacial Lake Vostok in Antarctica, the RIA Novosti news agency reported on March 7.

The samples obtained from the underground lake in May 2012 contained a bacteria which bore no resemblance to existing types, said Sergei Bulat of the genetics laboratory at the Saint Petersburg Institute of Nuclear Physics.