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UFO Baltic Sea - Google Search - Sorted by date. Scientists drill two miles down to ancient Lake Vostok. (PhysOrg.com) -- Russian scientists last week finished penetrating more than two miles through the Antarctic ice sheet to Lake Vostok, a huge freshwater lake that has been buried under the ice for millions of years.

Scientists drill two miles down to ancient Lake Vostok

The feat has taken two decades to accomplish, but the scientists won’t know what they’ve found until next year — the team quickly exited the research station, located in the middle of the continent 800 miles from the South Pole, to avoid increasingly harsh polar conditions. When the drilling reached the lake, 3,769 meters (12,366 feet) down, water, under great pressure from the ice above it, shot up the bore hole and froze. Google to pay users to browse the web (and watch what they're doing)