Later this year, Russian scientists should be in a position to extract the first water samples from 15,690 km2 Lake Vostok, situated 4,000 m under the Antarctic ice. The lake’s water is highly pressurised, tidal, magnetically anomalous, expected to be supersaturated with clathrates, and has been isolated for at least 15 million years. Ooh I can’t wait to see if they find any exciting biota!
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