Russian Drill Nears 14-Million-Year-Old Antarctic Lake | Wired Science | Wired.com

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Some more links about this story:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/scientists-close-to-entering-vostok-antarcticas-biggest-subglacial-lake/2012/01/27/gIQAbGX0fQ_story.html

and a blog by a scientist working on the project:

http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~mstuding/vostok.html