Disputed Antarctic drilling plan is put on ice
Wednesday, February 9, 2011 - 15:31
in Earth & Climate
The big mystery of Lake Vostok and whether it holds ancient microbial life will have to wait for another Antarctic winter to pass. A team of Russian researchers left their remote drilling site this week with less than 50 feet to go to break into the surface of a vast underground lake that has remain untouched for the past 15 million years.