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Russian Drill Nears 14-Million-Year-Old Antarctic Lake | Wired Science
<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-94721" title="lake-vostok-antarctica-location-nasa" src="http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2012/02/lake-vostok-antarctica-location-nasa.jpg" alt="" width="660" height="559" /> By Mark Brown, Wired UK After 20 years of drilling, a team of Russian researchers is close to breaching the prehistoric Lake Vostok, which has been trapped deep beneath Antarctica for the last 14 million years.Toxic barbs on a cucumber’s skin, nanoscopic flakes of metal and a mouse’s technicolor eyeball (above) are just a few of 2011′s top science visualizations.
