Life may lurk in Antarctica's sub-glacial Lake Vostok, but it's still elusive. The Russian scientists who drilled through 4000 meters of ice to reach the lake in February are going back this winter to sample it. First, though, they tested the ice clinging to the drill bit, which may be old, refrozen lake water. It had few microbes, the team reported last week at an astrobiology conference in Stockholm.
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