Topic: Teams Set for First Taste of Antarctic Lakes

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The pitch-black lakes hidden beneath Antarctica's ice sheet will finally start to release their secrets next year. At a meeting last week, scientists from Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States described their plans to explore the planet's last uncharted ecosystems by drilling into three very different examples of these subglacial lakes.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=lake-vostok-drilling-antarctica