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Scientists get approval to study Antarctic Lake
May 19 2007, Rajni

It has long been the desire of the scientists from all over the world to drill through the thick ice and into Antarctica’s 100-mile-long Lake Vostok, the most isolated, mysterious and fragile ecosystem on the planet. National Academies of Science...

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