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Deep Freeze Lake

  • September 1, 2012
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

Hidden under about 2.5 miles of ice in Antarctica is one of the world’s largest freshwater lakes, Lake Vostok. After a decade of drilling, Russian scientists reached the surface in 2012, hoping to find microbial life forms from prehistoric times.

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